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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Recent changes in Ghostscript</title> <!-- $Id: News.htm,v 1.168 2005/10/20 19:46:23 ray Exp $ --> <!-- Originally: NEWS --> <!-- WARNING: do not use Pete Kaiser's emacs function "gs-toc" alone to re-create the table of contents here, because it will replace the hand-edited TOC subheads with a separate subhead for each H2 in the body of the file. Or if you do, first look at the original TOC to see how to edit it for visual conciseness. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gs.css"> </head> <body> <!-- [1.0 begin visible header] ============================================ --> <!-- [1.1 begin headline] ================================================== --> <h1>Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript</h1> <!-- [1.1 end headline] ==================================================== --> <!-- [1.2 begin table of contents] ========================================= --> <!-- [1.2 end table of contents] =========================================== --> <!-- [1.3 begin hint] ====================================================== --> <p> This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release. For earlier versions, see the history documents: <blockquote> <a href="History8.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 8.n</a><br> <a href="History7.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 7.n</a><br> <a href="History6.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 6.n</a><br> <a href="History5.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 5.n</a><br> <a href="History4.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 4.n</a><br> <a href="History3.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 3.n</a><br> <a href="History2.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 2.n</a><br> <a href="History1.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 1.n</a> </blockquote> <p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript overview</a>. <!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> <hr> <!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> <!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> <h3><a name="Version8.53"></a>Version 8.53 (2005-10-20)</h3> <p>This is the fourth stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript. It contains a few bug fixes and improvements since 8.52, particularly in the fix for a build problem on AMD64/Windows64 and vastly improved transparency rendering speed for some PDF's. <p> The following <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/">bugs</a> were open at the time of this release: <blockquote> 465936, 578865, 592160, 610478, 626295, 686747, 686842, 686853, 687011, 687039, 687063, 687108, 687125, 687146, 687196, 687219, 687231, 687243, 687257, 687271, 687280, 687292, 687295, 687298, 687314, 687316, 687327, 687342, 687345, 687346, 687373, 687397, 687399, 687435, 687480, 687484, 687514, 687520, 687525, 687529, 687531, 687545, 687559, 687560, 687583, 687608, 687621, 687622, 687628, 687633, 687642, 687643, 687644, 687650, 687654, 687657, 687663, 687669, 687674, 687676, 687677, 687679, 687682, 687694, 687695, 687697, 687702, 687721, 687728, 687729, 687796, 687805, 687806, 687808, 687814, 687822, 687825, 687844, 687848, 687850, 687863, 687866, 687868, 687870, 687875, 687895, 687903, 687904, 687907, 687914, 687919, 687931, 687938, 687957, 687960, 687970, 687974, 687975, 687986, 687988, 687992, 687994, 687996, 688005, 688006, 688007, 688009, 688013, 688017, 688020, 688022, 688026, 688032, 688035, 688036, 688039, 688042, 688047, 688054, 688058, 688060, 688061, 688064, 688066, 688068, 688075, 688079, 688081, 688091, 688095, 688101, 688106, 688108, 688124, 688129, 688130, 688132, 688134, 688149, 688151, 688152, 688159, 688166, 688176, 688179, 688181, 688184, 688187, 688200, 688203, 688207, 688215, 688225, 688227, 688231, 688239, 688243, 688249, 688260, 688265, 688269, 688274, 688278, 688280, 688282, 688285, 688288, 688290, 688291, 688295, 688300, 688302, 688309, 688311, 688317, 688318, 688319, 688320, 688321, 688323, 688326, 688329, 688332, 688333, 688334, 688335, 688336, 688337, 688338, 688339, 688342, 688344 </blockquote> <h3><a name="8.53_Incompatible_changes"></a>Incompatible changes</h3> <p> There are no known incompatible changes at this point. <!-- [2.0 end contents] ==================================================== --> <!-- [3.0 begin visible trailer] =========================================== --> <hr> <p> Copyright © 2005 artofcode LLC. All rights reserved. <p> This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or implied. This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. For more information about licensing, please refer to http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861. <p> <small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005 <!-- [3.0 end visible trailer] ============================================= --> </body> </html>