[gs-bugs] [Bug 689507] WTS is not working in 8.61. 8.54 worked fine.

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http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689507

--- Comment #34 from Rick Richardson <rick.richardson at comcast.net> 2011-01-10 19:56:12 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #33)
> Thanks for testing with the SVN head. We will have a release coming out (9.01)
> as close to Feb. 1 as we can manage, so this update will include the fix for
> the WTS crash.
> 
> The problems with WTS are primarily that it seems to fall down on the halftone
> generation for some angles when the lpi is high for the current resolution.
> 
> Michael Vrhel has developed a 'supercell' halftone generation program that
> we will be moving toward, and while this is in the SVN in:
>    toolbin/color/halftone/halfttoning/
> the documentation is almost non-existent and we haven't really done much
> testing with it, and it doesn't work with PostScript without changing the
> binary format output to something compatible with PS. We are looking at all
> of these issues.

Hmm.  I see.  But, I just read the doco GS 9.0 Color Management.  So, I can
use,
say,
    gs900 -sOutputICCProfile=/usr/share/foo2qpdl/icm/samclp315-argyll-0.icm 
...
and get rid of the WTS completely?? Or no??

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