1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 2<html> 3<head> 4<title>People who have helped with Ghostscript</title> 5<!-- $Id: Helpers.htm,v 1.44 2005/10/20 19:46:23 ray Exp $ --> 6<!-- Originally: helpers.txt --> 7<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gs.css" title="Ghostscript Style"> 8</head> 9 10<body> 11<!-- [1.0 begin visible header] ============================================ --> 12 13<!-- [1.1 begin headline] ================================================== --> 14 15<h1>People who have helped with Ghostscript</h1> 16 17<!-- [1.1 end headline] ==================================================== --> 18 19<!-- [1.2 begin table of contents] ========================================= --> 20 21<!-- [1.2 end table of contents] =========================================== --> 22 23<!-- [1.3 begin hint] ====================================================== --> 24 25<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript 26overview</a>. 27 28<!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> 29 30<hr> 31 32<!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> 33 34<!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> 35 36<p> 37Many people have contributed to the development of Ghostscript. 38we wish to acknowledge and thank the following people (in 39alphabetical order) who have contributed substantially to improving 40Ghostscript since its inception in 1986: 41 42<blockquote> 43<dl> 44<dt>Hitoshi Aida 45 <dd>for help with the SunView driver 46<dt>Pierre Arnaud 47 <dd>for bug reports and fixes 48<dt>Juan Manuel Acosta 49 <dd>for LN03+ driver and fixes of arc and circle rendering on SunOS 50<dt>William Bader 51 <dd>for several drivers and bug reports 52<dt>Alan Barclay 53 <dd>for the RGB TIFF drivers 54<dt>Nelson H. F. Beebe 55 <dd>for testing on a wide variety of Unix architectures, and for 56 the multi-architecture makefile 57<dt>Karl Berry and Kathy Hargreaves 58 <dd>for helping create the fonts originally distributed with 59 Ghostscript 60<dt>James W. Birdsall 61 <dd>for the IBM ProPrinter driver 62<dt>Andrew Birrell 63 <dd>for a challenging application 64<dt>Jan Bottorff 65 <dd>for help with the Microsoft Windows driver 66<dt>Tom Brosnan 67 <dd>for the Desqview/X port 68<dt>Philip Brown 69 <dd>for the LaserJet IIID duplex additions 70<dt>Tobias Burnus 71 <dd>for many challenging bug reports 72<dt>George Cameron 73 <dd>for DeskJet 500C and 550C drivers 74<dt>Maurice Castro 75 <dd>a collaborator of Russell Lang's 76<dt>Jeff Chua 77 <dd>for the idea and first implementation of 78 <b><tt>ReopenPerPage</tt></b> 79<dt>Phil Conrad 80 <dd>for originating the PPM utilities and the PCX and GIF drivers, 81 and lots of bug reports 82<dt>Michel Dagenais 83 <dd>for major help with the DeskJet driver 84<dt>John Desrosiers 85 <dd>for the final work on the Microsoft Visual C++ makefiles, 86 and for enhancements to the memory manager 87<dt>Jim Dunham 88 <dd>for the OpenVMS makefile 89<dt>Gershon Elber 90 <dd>for improvements to the BGI driver 91<dt>Fritz Elfert 92 <dd>for the Unix file enumeration routine 93<dt>George Ferguson 94 <dd>for some added man pages 95<dt>Mike Ferrara 96 <dd>for help with the LaserJet driver and HP-UX 97<dt>Andy Fyfe 98 <dd>for the BJ200 driver modifications to the BJ10e driver, and for 99 the 3B1 driver 100<dt>Tim Gallivan 101 <dd>for a port to the Atari ST 102<dt>J. Greely 103 <dd>for help with the PostScript-to-ASCII filter 104<dt>Gintautas Grigelionis 105 <dd>for a set of XBM/XPM icons 106<dt>Paul Haeberli 107 <dd>for the ideas behind better color selection and trapezoid fill 108 algorithms 109<dt>Karl Hakimian 110 <dd>for the Tek 4693d drivers 111<dt>Richard Hesketh 112 <dd>for GSPreview 113<dt>Gunther Hess 114 <dd>for the unified inkjet printer driver 115<dt>Thomas Hiller 116 <dd>for the Trident TVGA driver 117<dt>Frans van Hoesel 118 <dd>for improvements to the DeskJet driver 119<dt>Berthold K. P. Horn 120 <dd>for a better spot halftone screen 121<dt>B. Jackowski and GUST (the Polish TeX users group) 122 <dd>for improvements to the TrueType font reader, and for the 123 <b><tt>tiff2ps</tt></b> and <b><tt>ttf2pf</tt></b> utilities 124<dt>Jouk Jansen 125 <dd>for motivating, testing, and providing some of the script 126 file for the MMK/MMS build procedure 127<dt>Earl Johnson 128 <dd>for the motivation for the <b><tt>ps2ascii</tt></b> utility 129<dt>Ray Johnston 130 <dd>for a first draft of FAKEFONTS and EPSF recognition, and for 131 many small bug fixes 132<dt>Larry Jones 133 <dd>for simplifying and improving the portability of the pthreads 134 interface code 135<dt>Pete Kaiser 136 <dd>for beta testing, several versions of the OSF/1 font map, and 137 an HTML version of the documentation 138<dt>Norio Katayama 139 <dd>for the first implementation of composite fonts, and for 140 testing and helping debug the later implementation 141<dt>Alfred Kayser 142 <dd>for a DeskJet 500C driver and beta testing 143<dt>Richard Keeney 144 <dd>for help with the SunView driver 145<dt>Markku Koppinen 146 <dd>for a better circle-to-curve algorithm 147<dt>Eleftherios Koutsofios 148 <dd>for help with the SunView driver 149<dt>Tom Lane 150 <dd>for major help with adapting and integrating the IJG code 151<dt>Sam Leffler 152 <dd>for the original TIFF G3 driver, and for finding some subtle 153 bugs in the CCITTFaxEncode filter 154<dt>Jonathan Luckey 155 <dd>for the high-resolution Imagewriter drivers 156<dt>Ken Lunde 157 <dd>for providing pointers to freely available CJKV font-related 158 resource 159<dt>Ian MacPhedran 160 <dd>for a sixel driver 161<dt>Jim Mayer 162 <dd>for help with the DeskJet and LaserJet drivers 163<dt>Paul McJones 164 <dd>for help in identifying a variety of bugs 165<dt>William L. Menninger 166 <dd>for a version of the PC display state save/restore code 167<dt>Richard Mlynarik 168 <dd>for a nearly overwhelming volume of improvements and 169 suggestions 170<dt>Ulrich Mueller 171 <dd>for the LN03 driver 172<dt>Daniel Newman 173 <dd>for major help with VMS and the CCITTFax filters 174<dt>Bjorn S. Nilsson 175 <dd>for major help with VMS, including many updates of the DCL 176 build scripts and creating the VMS help file 177<dt>Roque Donizete de Oliveira 178 <dd>for testing and debugging, and a "man" page 179<dt>Gerbert Orasche 180 <dd>for some minor bug fixes 181<dt>Marc Paquette 182 <dd>for the original PaintJet driver 183<dt>Hal Peterson 184 <dd>for major help with BDF fonts 185<dt>Andy Piper 186 <dd>for the first draft of the WindowID feature 187<dt>Martin Pirker 188 <dd>for fixing two major problems with TrueType fonts 189<dt>Tom Quinn 190 <dd>for the Canon LBP-8II driver 191<dt>Matthias Rabe 192 <dd>for work on an OS/2 port 193<dt>Jerry Roylance 194 <dd>for help with statusdict 195<dt>Dave St. Clair 196 <dd>for the color Epson/Fujitsu driver 197<dt>Jan Sanislo 198 <dd>for two subtle but vital fixes 199<dt>Clemens Schrimpe 200 <dd>for help with accented characters 201<dt>Scott Schwartz 202 <dd>for improvements to <b><tt>gslp.ps</tt></b> 203<dt>Mike Smolenski 204 <dd>for the Sony drivers 205<dt>Snoopy 206 <dd>for major help with Hershey fonts, and many other contributions 207<dt>Karsten Spang 208 <dd>for the Tektronix 4695/4696 driver 209<dt>Andreas Stolcke 210 <dd>for help with the SunView driver 211<dt>Hans-Gerd Straeter 212 <dd>for finding many obscure bugs 213<dt>Christoph Strozyk 214 <dd>for getting the URW fonts made available 215<dt>Alexey Subbotin 216 <dd>for contributing an interface to GNU readline, and for the 217 rewritten implementation of == 218<dt>Michael Sweet 219 <dd>for help with the high-density Epson driver 220<dt>Guenther Thomsen 221 <dd>for the mid-density Epson driver 222<dt>Gregg Townsend 223 <dd>for the low-resolution dithering algorithm 224<dt>Christian Tschudin 225 <dd>for fixes to the virtual memory package, and for the original 226 BubbleJet driver 227<dt>Stephen Turnbull 228 <dd>for help with the DesqView/X port 229<dt>Jos Vos 230 <dd>for the original PBM/PGM/PPM driver, and for much beta testing 231<dt>Renze de Waal 232 <dd>for an improvement to the "<b><tt>SAFER</tt></b>" feature 233<dt>Allan Wax 234 <dd>for the AT&T 6300 modification to the BGI driver 235<dt>Mark Wedel 236 <dd>for the Apple DMP driver 237<dt>David Wexelblat 238 <dd>for the high-resolution 9-pin Epson driver 239<dt>George N. White III 240 <dd>for testing the PDF writer and contributing documentation 241<dt>Elizabeth Zwicky 242 <dd>for some very challenging examples 243</dl> 244</blockquote> 245 246<p> 247The following people have also helped out by beta testing, by reporting 248bugs and/or fixes, or in other ways: 249 250<blockquote> 251Vikas Aggarwal, Michael Almond, 252Abramo Bagnara, Malcolm Bennett, David Brooks, 253Alex Cherepanov, Jim Collins, 254Peter da Silva, Art Dederick, Paul DuBois, 255Toerless Eckert, 256Bernhard Fabricius, Mark Friedman, Richard Foulk, 257Glenn Geers, Dave Goldblatt, Ben Goren, Dirk Grunwald, 258Lars Haakedal, Howard B. Halstead, Adam Hammer, George Hartzell, Mike Hoffmann, Charles Hulse, 259Brad Jones, Terry Jones, 260David Keppel, 261Anthony Lee, Marty Leisner, John Lundin Jr., Lee McLoughlin, 262Stergios Marinopoulos, Herb Martin, David Mathog, David Maynard, Doug McDonald, Rich Murphey, 263Russ Nelson, 264Peter Phillips, 265Mark Rawling, Philippe Robert, Tomas Rokicki, Wolfgang Rupprecht, 266Bill Schelter, Larry Schwimmer, Bakul Shah, 267Erik Talvola, Henrik Theiling, Mark A. Thomas, Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen, 268Amanda Walker, Peter Wan, John L. Wehle, Carsten Wiethoff, Carl Witty, 269Frank Yellin, 270Jamie Zawinski 271</blockquote> 272 273<p> 274If your name appears on the above list and we've omitted a particular 275contribution you made, or if we've accidentally overlooked you entirely, 276please forgive us: just let us know at <a href="mailto:raph@artofcode.com">raph@artofcode.com</a>, and you will be 277properly acknowledged in the next release. 278 279<!-- [2.0 end contents] ==================================================== --> 280 281<!-- [3.0 begin visible trailer] =========================================== --> 282<hr> 283 284<p> 285<small>Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998 Aladdin Enterprises. All 286rights reserved.</small> 287 288<p> 289This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or 290implied. 291 292This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, 293modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms 294of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. 295 296For more information about licensing, please refer to 297http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on 298commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or 299contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, 300San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861. 301 302<p> 303<small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005 304 305<!-- [3.0 end visible trailer] ============================================= --> 306 307</body> 308</html> 309