[gs-devel] Re: Merger ESP/GPL GS: GPL GS 8.57 is out, how to proceed with the merger

[Till Kamppeter]

Ray Johnston wrote:
> Just to be entirely clear about the gs_init.ps change to default BG and 
> UCR, changing these
> defaults will affect the default appearance on CMYK devices when the 
> colors are RGB.
> While these values are easily controlled by customers/user with the 
> corresponding PS
> operators, most people don't set them. I think it is up to CUPS sending 
> data to GS to
> set these (then the defaults don't matter), or at least for gs to use 
> different defaults when
> running from CUPS.
>

This I have removed now.

> Also the gs_setpd.ps change to Policy should default to PolicyNotFound 1 
> and PageSize 0
> (not 7). This is expected by some PS files and would change the results 
> for some
> users/customers that rely on the existing values. Once again, most 
> people SHOULD set
> these, and there is no problem with CUPS sending the setpagedevice the 
> set these
> Policy values and not rely on specific defaults.
>

The change of the policies is now only done if "-dNOMEDIAATTRS" is 
supplied on the command line, which usually only happens when 
Ghostscript is called by a CUPS filter, like the cups/psto* scripts.

    Till