[gs-devel] Re: Upcoming Ghostscript 8.60 release

[Koji Otani]

Hi,

Pathes is almost ready.
But, it's behavior with fontconfig  and 'cidfmap' setting
file is not clear yet.
I think that GS 8.60 has different behavior from ESPGS 8.15.x with
`cidfmap`.

I continue testing.

Current source in SVN (Revision 8140) without CJK patch 
has following problems about CJK.

(1) Can't read some TrueType fonts.
    It can't read sazanami Font, Ricoh Font.
    This is serious especially about sazanami font, because sazanami font is
    a popular free font in Japan.

(2) Can't display glyphs for Japanese vertical text correctly.

(3) Bad metrics treatment for vertical text. Positions of characters
are incorrect.
    New problem that center line of text is offsetted emerged, besides
    problem already exists in version 8.15.1.

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Koji Otani.