From raph@acm.org Thu Oct 12 16:12:48 2000 Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14464 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:12:04 -0700 Received: from acm.org ([63.196.208.220]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G2C001W6A8TXF@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for gs-test@ghostscript.com; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:56:26 -0700 From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Message-id: <39E6419A.9AE86666@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Subject: [Gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 6.30 beta release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing The AFPL Ghostscript 6.30 beta release is now available in the gs-beta package of the AFPL Ghostscript project on SourceForge. Follow the download link from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript or, for ftp access: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/test . With this release Ghostscript is going into a formal beta period prior to the 6.50 maintenance release. Please test it to its fullest, and give us bug reports. In return, during the beta period, we will give your bug reports priority. Our goal is for this to be an extremely solid release. Information on submitting bugs is in doc/Bug-info.html . The process has changed slightly - if you don't need to attach a file, you now have the option of submitting a bug directly to the SourceForge bug tracking system. The old bug form still works, although the email addresses now point to @ghostscript.com rather than @aladdin.com. I look forward to getting your bug reports! Thanks for all the hard work you have done, and are doing, to help make Ghostscript attain its high standard of quality. Raph -- Raph Levien | artofcode LLC | www.artofcode.com From raph@acm.org Sat Nov 4 15:56:45 2000 Received: from lizardbreath.artofcode.com (adsl-63-196-208-218.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.208.218]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA06749 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 15:56:45 -0800 Received: (from raph@localhost) by lizardbreath.artofcode.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA10094; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 16:01:05 -0800 Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 16:01:05 -0800 Message-Id: <200011050001.QAA10094@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lizardbreath.artofcode.com: raph set sender to raph@acm.org using -f From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: [Gs-test] Ghostscript 6.31 fileset released Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing Dear Ghostscript testers, The 6.31 fileset is now available for download from SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&release_id=15393 There are a number of open bugs in this release, but also quite a number that have been fixed since the 6.30 release. If you have problem files, we'd greatly appreciate it if you could verify whether this release fixes the problem, especially if the bug is marked as closed in the SourceForge bug tracking system. Thanks very much for all your input. It helps us greatly to produce high quality releases. Raph From raph@acm.org Mon Nov 27 23:57:12 2000 Received: from lizardbreath.artofcode.com (adsl-63-196-208-218.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.208.218]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA23812 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:57:12 -0800 Received: (from raph@localhost) by lizardbreath.artofcode.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA04744; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:01:48 -0800 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:01:48 -0800 Message-Id: <200011280801.AAA04744@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lizardbreath.artofcode.com: raph set sender to raph@acm.org using -f From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: [Gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 6.32 beta release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing Hi Ghostscript testers, I'm pleased to announce the 6.32 beta release of AFPL Ghostscript. This is likely to be the last release before the 6.50 stable release. Thus, now is a very good time to get your bug reports in. One of the particular areas of interest is security. The 6.32 release contains a fix for the recently reported LD_RUN_PATH problem. Since the fix is a small change to the build process, I'm interested in whether it breaks the build for anybody. "Portable shell" is, after all, something of an oxymoron. The source tarballs are available at the SourceForge download site and also ftp.cs.wisc.edu: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&release_id=17052 ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/test/ Thanks for all the valuable feedback. We hope you enjoy this release. Raph From akhaef@ea.oac.uci.edu Thu Feb 1 13:28:03 2001 Received: from taurus.oac.uci.edu (akhaef@taurus.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.23]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03413 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:28:01 -0800 Received: from localhost (akhaef@localhost) by taurus.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA13317 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:30:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:30:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Amin A. Khaef" To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [Gs-test] GS and device drivers Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing Hello. First of all I wanted to thank you guys for such a great product. I'd be stuck rebooting w/o it. I was just wondering if the newer ghostscript versions still require all device drivers to be compiled with ghostscript. My version is kind of outdated, so I hoped that in the new versions I could just compile gs, then compile any devices I needed later w/o recompiling gs. If not, then do you guys know if/when you guys will ever make it this way? Thanks -Al From raph@levien.com Thu Feb 1 15:04:52 2001 Received: (from raph@localhost) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA05212; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:04:52 -0800 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:04:52 -0800 From: Raph Levien To: "Amin A. Khaef" Cc: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: Re: [Gs-test] GS and device drivers Message-ID: <20010201150452.F12849@levien.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:30:39PM -0800, Amin A. Khaef wrote: > Hello. First of all I wanted to thank you guys for such a great product. > I'd be stuck rebooting w/o it. > > I was just wondering if the newer ghostscript versions still require all > device drivers to be compiled with ghostscript. My version is kind of > outdated, so I hoped that in the new versions I could just compile gs, > then compile any devices I needed later w/o recompiling gs. If not, then > do you guys know if/when you guys will ever make it this way? Good news: we're actively working on a project to allow drivers to be loaded dynamically rather than compiled in statically to Ghostscript. Eventually (possibly for the upcoming 7.0 release, depending on how much time people have to work on it) printer drivers will be split off into a different module. Among other things, this should allow drivers to be released and updated on a more aggressive schedule than the Ghostscript core. Thanks for your interest and comments. Raph From akhaef@ea.oac.uci.edu Thu Feb 1 17:56:54 2001 Received: from taurus.oac.uci.edu (akhaef@taurus.oac.uci.edu [128.200.80.23]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08326 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:56:54 -0800 Received: from localhost (akhaef@localhost) by taurus.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA25023 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:59:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 17:59:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Amin A. Khaef" To: Subject: Re: [Gs-test] GS and device drivers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing Thanks a lot Ralph and Alex. I'll be looking forward to it. -Al From raph@acm.org Fri Feb 23 18:56:48 2001 Received: from lizardbreath.artofcode.com (adsl-63-196-208-222.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.208.222]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA02841 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 18:56:48 -0800 Received: (from raph@localhost) by lizardbreath.artofcode.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA09926; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:46:33 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:46:33 -0800 Message-Id: <200102240146.RAA09926@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lizardbreath.artofcode.com: raph set sender to raph@acm.org using -f From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: [Gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 6.61 developer release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing I'm pleased to announce the 6.61 developer release of AFPL Ghostscript. The big news in this release is continuing development of the PDF 1.4 transparency and blending imaging model. This release supports all blending modes, in addition to both isolated and non-isolated groups, and knockout groups. The latter is noteworthy because of its need for two alpha channels (one for opacity, one for shape). The big feature missing is masks, but it should be possible to play with this release anyway. If you're interested in looking at the PDF 1.4 rendering code, most of the action is in gdevpnga.c and gxblend.c. At the moment, the only application I know of which can generate PDF 1.4 files is Adobe Illustrator 9. If you know of others, or if you are willing to test Ghostscript's rendering with AI9, please let me know. This will be one of the last development releases before we enter a formal beta. We're hoping to get the 7.0 stable release out the door by Seybold Boston, April 9. It's a pretty tight schedule, but with luck we'll be able to make it. Thanks to the rest of the Ghostscript crew for the usual round of bug fixes and improvements. Among other things, we've hopefully fixed the CRLF line endings that create problems with Windows 95 and 98. Let us know if we missed a spot. The 6.61 release is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&release_id=24866 ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/test/ Raph From jv@squirrel.nl Sat Feb 24 04:19:47 2001 Received: from smtp7.xs4all.nl (smtp7.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.133]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA11843 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 04:19:46 -0800 Received: from phoenix.squirrel.nl (jojan.xs4all.nl [213.84.56.213]) by smtp7.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27684; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:09:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by phoenix.squirrel.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 524FD56DCC; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:09:29 +0100 (CET) From: Johan Vromans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14999.38505.313487.688731@phoenix.squirrel.nl> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:09:29 +0100 To: Raph Levien X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 21.0.98.1 Cc: gs-test@ghostscript.com References: <200102240146.RAA09926@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> Subject: [Gs-test] Re: AFPL Ghostscript 6.61 developer release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing Raph Levien writes: > The 6.61 release is available for download at: Thanks for the good work. I must, however, remark that I'm slightly disappointed to find so many bugs that have been reported several months (and (test)releases) ago still there. -- Johan From raph@levien.com Mon Feb 26 17:58:28 2001 Received: (from raph@localhost) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA07732; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:58:28 -0800 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 17:58:28 -0800 From: Raph Levien To: Johan Vromans Cc: Raph Levien , gs-test@ghostscript.com Message-ID: <20010226175828.J31837@levien.com> References: <200102240146.RAA09926@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> <14999.38505.313487.688731@phoenix.squirrel.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <14999.38505.313487.688731@phoenix.squirrel.nl> Subject: [Gs-test] Re: AFPL Ghostscript 6.61 developer release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 12:09:29PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote: > Raph Levien writes: > > > The 6.61 release is available for download at: > > Thanks for the good work. Thanks! > I must, however, remark that I'm slightly disappointed to find so many > bugs that have been reported several months (and (test)releases) ago > still there. Yes, we're trying our best to work on the bug backlog, but it's proving to be challenging. One possiblity I'm considering is offering a cash bounty for each bug fixed, to encourage outside development. If you know of anyone who might find this interesting, send them my way. Thanks for your feedback, Raph From raph@acm.org Tue Mar 20 08:35:39 2001 Received: from lizardbreath.artofcode.com (adsl-63-196-208-222.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.208.222]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA18763 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:35:39 -0800 Received: (from raph@localhost) by lizardbreath.artofcode.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA01137; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:38:17 -0800 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:38:17 -0800 Message-Id: <200103201638.IAA01137@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lizardbreath.artofcode.com: raph set sender to raph@acm.org using -f From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: [Gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 6.62 beta release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing AFPL Ghostscript 6.62 is now available in the gs-beta package of the AFPL Ghostscript project. This is the first beta in the series leading up to 7.0. The major new features are ICC profile support and a new shared library (DLL) interface. PDF 1.4 rendering will continue to be developed through the beta period. AFPL Ghostscript 6.62 can be downloaded from these locations: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&release_id=27870 ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/test/ The Ghostscript development team appreciates your testing and bug reports! Raph From raph@acm.org Sat Apr 7 16:45:20 2001 Received: from lizardbreath.artofcode.com (adsl-63-196-208-222.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.196.208.222]) by levien.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29704 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:45:20 -0700 Received: (from raph@localhost) by lizardbreath.artofcode.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA04275; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:49:12 -0700 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:49:12 -0700 Message-Id: <200104072349.QAA04275@lizardbreath.artofcode.com> X-Authentication-Warning: lizardbreath.artofcode.com: raph set sender to raph@acm.org using -f From: Raph Levien To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Subject: [Gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 6.64 beta release Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing AFPL Ghostscript 6.64 is now available in the gs-beta package of the AFPL Ghostscript project. This is the third, and almost certainly last, beta in the series leading up to 7.0. Most of the changes since 6.63 are bug fixes, although this release does also include integration for the hpijs driver for HP inkjet printers. This is also a good chance to check out the new mirror site for Ghostscript kindly provided by the University of Wisconson. ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/test/ The old ftp site should work as well: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/test/ You can also download the release from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&release_id=30302 Thanks for your testing and feedback! Raph Levien From rillian@telus.net Thu Apr 4 21:51:42 2002 Received: from priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (mtaout.telus.net [199.185.220.235]) by casper.ghostscript.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Debian -5) with ESMTP id g355pc0j022358 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:51:42 -0800 Received: from localhost ([142.179.111.41]) by priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.01 201-253-122-122-101-20011014) with ESMTP id <20020405055148.QRAH24419.priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net@localhost> for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:51:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:51:47 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: rillian To: gs-test@ghostscript.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <37DD7FD4-4859-11D6-9952-003065C7E9C2@telus.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Subject: [gs-test] AFPL Ghostscript 7.20 released Sender: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com Errors-To: gs-test-admin@ghostscript.com X-BeenThere: gs-test@ghostscript.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Announcement of Ghostscript beta releases for testing List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: artofcode LLC and Artifex Software, Inc. are please to announce the release of the first development snapshot since the 7.0x stable branch. It's available from the usual locations; the primary sites being primarily: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/test/ http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/ New in this release: * Support for external font renderers such as Agfa's UFST * new 'diskn' feature emulated the '%disk' devices found on some Adobe printers * The security flag -dSAFER now restricts reading as well as writing of files outside the permitted directories, and thus is equivalent to '-dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER' in the 7.04 release. This improves system security, but will cause problems with some viewers, which will need updating. A patch is available for gv. Also, the following have been ported form the recent stable release: * Patch to close a serious security hole where PostScript code could cause arbitrary commands to be executed. * This release integrates the new IJS driver for raster output devices, making it easier to add and upgrade printer drivers without needing to recompile Ghostscript. * The build system now includes a configure script, generated by GNU autoconf for simplified compilation on Unix platorms. Thos who enjoy hand-editing the makefiles for their platform are still welcome to do so. And of course the usual feature improvements and minor bug fixing. Enjoy, -r -- rillian@telus.net giles@ghostscript.com