The Display Ghostscript System, version 0.5.8, is now
available.
What is the Display Ghostscript System?
=======================================
The Display Ghostscript System is functionally upward-compatible
with Adobe Display PostScript, but it has been written
independently. The Display Ghostscript System provides a
device-independent imaging model for displaying information on a
screen. The imaging model uses the PostScript language which has
powerful graphics capabilities and frees the programmer from
display-specific details like screen resolution and color
issues.
The Display Ghostscript System is composed of a PostScript
language interpreter (Ghostscript), the Client library, and the
pswrap translator.
The Display Ghostscript System uses a client/server
architecture. Applications are linked with the Client library which
communicates with the PostScript interpreter residing in the
server. The application utilizes the procedures and data structures
in the Client library which are independent of the actual
PostScript interpreter.
The pswrap translator allows you to take custom PostScript
language programs and wrap them with a C function interface thus
allowing your applications to call them directly. pswrap programs
are generally more efficient then performing the same PostScript
program purely with the Client library procedures.
Is the Display Ghostscript System free software?
================================================
Yes it is; though, the Display Ghostscript System is composed of
many different components, and each component has a different
license. You should read the appropriate license for each component
before making any decisions about what you can and cannot do.
*DPS/README Adobe DPSclient library copyrighted by Adobe Systems
Incorporated. *gs/PUBLIC GNU Ghostscript using the GPL copyright.
*jpeg/README JPEG library copyrighted by Thomas G. Lane. *png/png.h
PNG library copyrighted by Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc.
*zlib/README ZLIB library copyrighted by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark
Adler
What’s new in this release?
===========================
The currently released version of the Display Ghostscript System
is `0.5.8′.
Changes since version `0.5.7′
=============================
DGS can run on a machine with a different byte order from the
one it receives client data from.
Multiple contexts and context switching has been
implemented.
DGS also launches a server faster (after the first one), by
forking a new server for the new process.
Features:
- You can change mode of debug via arguments passed to
dpsnx.agent. dpsnx.agent debug=n # (n=unsigned int). - You can specify the port number when you call dpsnx.agent
directly. dpsnx.agent tcp/N # N means the port number.
How can I get support for this software?
========================================
Look at the GNUstep Web Pages for more information regarding
GNUstep resources `http://www.gnustep.org‘. There is a
GNOME mailing list which can be subscribed to by emailing
`mailto:dps-hackers-request@gnome.org’ (I don’t think it is
currently active).
Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
==============================================
The dgs-0.5.8.tar.gz distribution file has been placed on
`ftp.gnu.org’ in `gnu/dgs’. It is also available at
`ftp.gnustep.org’ in `pub/gnustep/dgs’. However, there is currently
a limit on how much can be downloaded from this site, so please try
to download files from the main GNU ftp site or alternative GNU
sites.
The program requires gcc 2.8.0 or higher.
The `.tar’ file is compressed with GNU gzip. Gzip can be
obtained by anonymous ftp at any of the GNU archive sites.
For info about FTP via email, send email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with no
subject line, and two-line body with line one `help’ and line two
`quit’.
The most recent (not necessarily tested) snapshots of the
library will be placed in `ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnustep/snap‘.
Where do I send bug reports?
============================
Bug reports can be sent to the GNUstep discussion list bug-gnustep@gnu.org.
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