The Display Ghostscript System, version 0.5.10, is now available. What is the Display Ghostscript System? ======================================= The Display Ghostscript System is functionally upward-compatible with Adobe Display PostScript, but it has been written independently. The Display Ghostscript System provides a device-independent imaging model for displaying information on a screen. The imaging model uses the PostScript language which has powerful graphics capabilities and frees the programmer from display-specific details like screen resolution and color issues. The Display Ghostscript System is composed of a PostScript language interpreter (Ghostscript), the Client library, and the pswrap translator. The Display Ghostscript System uses a client/server architecture. Applications are linked with the Client library which communicates with the PostScript interpreter residing in the server. The application utilizes the procedures and data structures in the Client library which are independent of the actual PostScript interpreter. The pswrap translator allows you to take custom PostScript language programs and wrap them with a C function interface thus allowing your applications to call them directly. pswrap programs are generally more efficient then performing the same PostScript program purely with the Client library procedures. What's new in this release? =========================== Due to serious problems in supporting multiple contexts in the current dgs structure, we decide to rewrite dgs. Version 0.5.10 will be the last release before this rewrite. This version is stable enough to use with a client that uses only a single context. Major chagnes: * The CPU hogging bug at shutdown time is fixed. * Code clean up. Agent code is split into different files. * The drawing area size restriction bug is fixed. * Better configuration and RPM support Where can you get it? ============================================== The dgs-0.5.10.tar.gz distribution file has been placed on `ftp.gnu.org' in `gnu/dgs'. It is also available at `ftp.gnustep.org' in `pub/gnustep/dgs'. However, there is currently a limit on how much can be downloaded from this site, so please try to download files from the main GNU ftp site or alternative GNU sites.
