[Files] A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8 released today! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Jul-2003 13:25 GMT by whoosh777 (Edited on 2003-07-19 16:45:59 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä) | 15 comments View flat View list |
A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8.00 for 68020 compatible
Amigas released today. For printing + viewing and
converting PS and PDF docs, eg 24 bit rgb printing
via Turboprint, 24 bit rgb Cybergraphics viewers
and HAM8 viewer for AGA machines.
click for full info, this program doesnt cost anything!
A.F.P.L Ghostscript 8.00 released today!
This contains a major fixing of the Turboprint devices to make
them compliant with Ghostscript 8. Now you can print PS and PDF
in commercial quality 24 bit rgb via the Turboprint devices.
Brand new PS + PDF viewing options have been written from scratch to
enable viewing in truecolour via graphics cards (Cybergraphics and
hopefully Picasso too). To know if you can use these viewers
type "version cybergraphics.library full" from a shell, if you
get a meaningful reply then the truecolour viewers are available.
The Cybergraphics viewers have only been tested in depth (with success)
on 2 graphics cards and superficially on 2 other cards so problems
could occur, if so email me: whoosh777@blueyonder.co.uk and I will
try to fix any problems.
Also written are 6 brand new AGA viewers for PS and PDF, including
a HAM8 custom screen viewer for 262144 colour viewing, also
present is a colour WB viewer window.
I am interested also in feedback positive or negative of
whether the viewers function on Pegasos and A1.
<tr>This is an optimised FPU noixemul 68020 compile, I will do
a no-FPU version over the next few days.
<tr>The manual can be viewed online or downloaded via
http://www.whoosh777.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/atlast.html
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Posted by whoosh777 on 23-Jul-2003 15:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Kulwant Bhogal): Kulwant said:============================Hi Whoosh,<p>Thanks very much for your detailed reply. Sounds good. I'm off to download and install (well probably install tomorrow - as it's getting late now).</p><p>Thanks again.</p><p>Kind regards,</p><p>Kulwant============================Great!</p><p>I'm sure you wont regret it, as its a stand-alone install ie doesnt affect other GS installs all you can lose is some disk space (less than 20meg which is nothing by todays standards).</p><p>Getting started will take some time, probably at least an afternoon,but once you know your way around its straightforward.</p><p>Feel free to contact me or eg Michael Merkel who has a very similar setup to yours, ie Epson stylus photo 890, cyberstorm 060/ppc, voodoo3000 + cybergraphx4, he also was previously using GS5.10. Michael is one of the main Viewer testers so I know all 6 Cybergraphics viewers fully function on his setup.</p><p>Peer Richter the other main GS8 Turboprint tester has Canon_S820 inkjet which produces stunning printouts via GS8 Turboprint.</p><p>So if anyone was wondering whether to buy Turboprint, or to try Turboprint via GS8 or about a good printer to buy they could contact Peer.</p><p>I am planning to get a G3 PegasosII when they come out,so at that point I will look into doing a version for that.I think though that the 68020 version should function perfectly adequately, no feedback yet on this. As JIT emulation is 75% of G3 native its almost not worth doing a special version.</p><p>If and when A1-OS4 becomes available I will look into that also. Again the 68020 version will probably be so fast that the time issue becomes irrelevant.</p><p>I am certain but have no proof though that the time bottleneckon a G3 will generally be the printer speed ie not a computer issue! </p><p>whoosh777 |
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