Ghostscript Portable was specially developed as a set of tools that provides:
· An interpreter for the PostScript language and the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).
· A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics and filtering (data compression / decompression / conversion) capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language and in PDF.
The major achievement of this release is a merge from the ESP Ghostscript fork, used to support the CUPS printing system.
The standalone version of the software can be found here.
What's New in This Release:
· As of this release (9.07), Ghostscript and GhostPDL are distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
· Ghostscript now has the option to be built as thread safe. Note that not all devices are thread safe. See the GS_THREADSAFE option in: GS_THREADSAFE
· The pdfwrite devices now supports linearized (or optimized for fast web view) output directly ("-dFastWebView")
· The Font API (FAPI) has been moved from the Postscript interpreter (psi) into the graphics library (base), and extended to support the other languages (PCL/PXL/XPS). All interpreters now use Freetype by default to render all viable font types.
· Ghostscript has been extended to support Postscript string and array objects with >64k entries.
· Ghostscript has been extended to support file sizes >4Gb - in particular reading and writing PDF files. As a side effect of this, Ghostscript also now supports 64 bit Postscript integer objects.
· All CMYK devices can now support simulated overprint of spot colors using the "-dS...