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>Recent changes in Ghostscript</title> 5<!-- $Id: News.htm,v 1.168 2005/10/20 19:46:23 ray Exp $ --> 6<!-- Originally: NEWS --> 7<!-- 8 WARNING: do not use Pete Kaiser's emacs function "gs-toc" alone to 9 re-create the table of contents here, because it will replace the 10 hand-edited TOC subheads with a separate subhead for each H2 in 11 the body of the file. 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For 34earlier versions, see the history documents: 35 36<blockquote> 37<a href="History8.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 8.n</a><br> 38<a href="History7.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 7.n</a><br> 39<a href="History6.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 6.n</a><br> 40<a href="History5.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 5.n</a><br> 41<a href="History4.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 4.n</a><br> 42<a href="History3.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 3.n</a><br> 43<a href="History2.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 2.n</a><br> 44<a href="History1.htm">History of Ghostscript versions 1.n</a> 45</blockquote> 46 47<p>For other information, see the <a href="Readme.htm">Ghostscript 48overview</a>. 49 50<!-- [1.3 end hint] ======================================================== --> 51 52<hr> 53 54<!-- [1.0 end visible header] ============================================== --> 55 56<!-- [2.0 begin contents] ================================================== --> 57 58<h3><a name="Version8.53"></a>Version 8.53 (2005-10-20)</h3> 59 60<p>This is the fourth stable release in the 8.5x series of Ghostscript. 61It contains a few bug fixes and improvements since 8.52, particularly in 62the fix for a build problem on AMD64/Windows64 and vastly improved 63transparency rendering speed for some PDF's. 64 65<p> The following <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/">bugs</a> were 66open at the time of this release: <blockquote> 67465936, 578865, 592160, 610478, 626295, 686747, 686842, 686853, 68687011, 687039, 687063, 687108, 687125, 687146, 687196, 687219, 69687231, 687243, 687257, 687271, 687280, 687292, 687295, 687298, 70687314, 687316, 687327, 687342, 687345, 687346, 687373, 687397, 71687399, 687435, 687480, 687484, 687514, 687520, 687525, 687529, 72687531, 687545, 687559, 687560, 687583, 687608, 687621, 687622, 73687628, 687633, 687642, 687643, 687644, 687650, 687654, 687657, 74687663, 687669, 687674, 687676, 687677, 687679, 687682, 687694, 75687695, 687697, 687702, 687721, 687728, 687729, 687796, 687805, 76687806, 687808, 687814, 687822, 687825, 687844, 687848, 687850, 77687863, 687866, 687868, 687870, 687875, 687895, 687903, 687904, 78687907, 687914, 687919, 687931, 687938, 687957, 687960, 687970, 79687974, 687975, 687986, 687988, 687992, 687994, 687996, 688005, 80688006, 688007, 688009, 688013, 688017, 688020, 688022, 688026, 81688032, 688035, 688036, 688039, 688042, 688047, 688054, 688058, 82688060, 688061, 688064, 688066, 688068, 688075, 688079, 688081, 83688091, 688095, 688101, 688106, 688108, 688124, 688129, 688130, 84688132, 688134, 688149, 688151, 688152, 688159, 688166, 688176, 85688179, 688181, 688184, 688187, 688200, 688203, 688207, 688215, 86688225, 688227, 688231, 688239, 688243, 688249, 688260, 688265, 87688269, 688274, 688278, 688280, 688282, 688285, 688288, 688290, 88688291, 688295, 688300, 688302, 688309, 688311, 688317, 688318, 89688319, 688320, 688321, 688323, 688326, 688329, 688332, 688333, 90688334, 688335, 688336, 688337, 688338, 688339, 688342, 688344 91</blockquote> 92 93<h3><a name="8.53_Incompatible_changes"></a>Incompatible changes</h3> 94 95<p> 96There are no known incompatible changes at this point. 97 98<!-- [2.0 end contents] ==================================================== --> 99 100<!-- [3.0 begin visible trailer] =========================================== --> 101<hr> 102 103<p> 104Copyright © 2005 artofcode LLC. All rights 105reserved. 106 107<p> 108This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or 109implied. 110 111This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, 112modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms 113of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. 114 115For more information about licensing, please refer to 116http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on 117commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or 118contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, 119San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861. 120 121<p> 122<small>Ghostscript version 8.53, 20 October 2005 123 124<!-- [3.0 end visible trailer] ============================================= --> 125 126</body> 127</html> 128