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:
· Background printing (BGPrint) is a new feature allowing an accumulated page clist to be rendered by one or more rendering threads whilst the interpreter (in the "main" thread) continues to accumulate the subsequent page's clist. For certain classes of file this can result in a useful performance increase.
· GrayDetection allows suitably written devices to detect "color" input in near neutral tones (i.e. near monochrome) and to convert "on-the-fly" to pure grayscale, whilst retaining the ability to print full color on demand. This is primarily aimed at workflows where saving ink (especially color inks) is required.
· LittleCMS2 and libpng have both been updated to the latest versions.
· Support has been added to build the Ghostscript DLL for WinRT for x86, x64 and ARM (Requires MS Visual Studio 2012 Pro).
· Processing of Windows command line arguments into UTF8 (as presaged a few releases ago) has been enhanced and enabled by default.
· The URW Postscript font set has been updated to the...