ESP GhostScript

ESP Ghostscript (ESPGS) is an open-source PostScript interpreter derived from GNU Ghostscript. This package is required; it provides full support for printing from Carbon applications in Mac OS X (there is no need to install this package more than once).

What is new in this release:

• Updated to GNU Ghostscript 7.07.
• The CUPS pstoraster script put a space between the -c option and the color profile code, causing an initialization error.
• The CUPS driver generated a lookup table that would omit certain values due to rounding errors in the Ghostscript graphics library (STR #136)
• The psmono and psgray drivers produced shrinked output (STR #6)
• The SPARCprinter driver did not compile (STR #24)
• Type-3 masked images did not render properly (STR #79)
• Fixed pstoraster failures (STR #5 and #166)
• Fixed bug in Samsung SmartGDI driver which prevented some files from being printed. Thanks to Grant Taylor from linuxprinting.org for the fix.
• Made src/gdevgdi.c compilable in -traditional mode of gcc (patch from Antony Uspensky).
• Updated the lxm3200 driver (gdevlx32.c) to the newest version, it features an option to adjust the margins of the Lexmark Z31 and uni-directional printing on the Z12 now.
• Fix datadir on systems that don't provide a default prefix (MacOS X). SF Bug #695705.
• The configure script did not substitute the OBJEXT and EXEEXT variables in the IJS makefile (STR #218)
• ESP Ghostscript should now cleanup all temporary files (Thanks to Werner Fink from SuSE)
• The PNG device now correctly detects the version of PNG library in use (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• ESP Ghostscript now reads all Fontmap files in the library path (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Command line option -c fixed (STR #225 and #230, thanks to Werner Fink)
• CUPS Makefile fix (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Update on Canon BJC drivers (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Security fix on ps2epsi (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Fixed X11 anti-aliasing problem (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Fixed potential 64-bit portability problem with malloc (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• Fixed pointers treated as integers in src/gomni.c (Thanks to Werner Fink)
• The CUPS driver incorrectly reallocated page memory, which could cause Ghostscript to crash (STR #246)
• The configure script did not check for a compatible version of GIMP-print for the STP driver (STR #232)
• ESP Ghostscript now substitutes the space character for missing glyphs in fonts. This is controlled using the espgsMissingChar definition in gs_init.ps (STR #275)
• The ps2epsi script did not quote ~'s in the sed command (STR #261)
• This Mac OS X build of ESP Ghostscript now uses a version of the PNG reference library, libpng, that includes the jumbo security patch, which addresses all of the security issues identified on 04 August 2004.

Requirements: