cvs commit: ports/print/ghostscript8 Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/print/ghostscript8/files patch-src-Makefile.in

[Hiroki Sato]

hrs         2008-11-02 15:42:29 UTC

  FreeBSD ports repository

  Modified files:
    print/ghostscript8   Makefile distinfo pkg-plist 
    print/ghostscript8/files patch-src-Makefile.in 
  Log:
  Update to 8.63.  Changes include (quoted from doc/News.htm):
  
  |Approximately 238 bugs have been fixed since version 8.62. Of particular note
  |are robustness and performance improvements with large files, invalid PDF, and
  |font handling.
  |
  |The major new feature of this release is multithreaded rendering. This can be
  |requested by passing -dNumRenderingThreads=n on the command line. The input
  |document is first parsed, and then each page is split into n bands which are
  |rendered concurrently. This can provide a significant reduction in processing
  |time on multi-core systems.
  |
  |Images are now always interpolated in their source colorspace. This improves
  |correctness for XPS documents and avoids bypassing the custom color management
  |callbacks for interpolated images. Interpolation and color management are both
  |expensive operations, so this affects performance with large images. The effect
  |can be positive or negative depending on the file and the target resolution. If
  |performance is a problem, we suggest running with -dNOINTERPOLATION.
  |
  |Support for OpenPrinting Vector devices has been upgraded to version 1.0.
  |
  |There are two new devices in this release, both experimental. Behdad Esfahbod
  |has contributed a cairo output device which uses the cairo graphics library to
  |generate PDF, SVG, EPS, or PNG files, based on the requested filename
  |extension. The svgwrite device directly outputs Scalable Vector Graphics, the
  |W3C XML vector graphics format. Both support only vector art at this point;
  |text and images will not be represented efficiently.
  |
  |Incompatible changes
  |
  |The maximum number of color components has been reduced to 8 (from 252) as a
  |performance improvement. Eight is the largest number commonly used and the
  |largest number for which we support continuous tone images. Users with special
  |needs can restore the previous behavior by setting the
  |GS_CLIENT_COLOR_MAX_COMPONENTS preprocessor symbol to the required number of
  |components at compile time.
  |
  |The -Z: debugging option now uses 'realtime' instead of 'usertime' when
  |reporting timing information on unix-like systems. This has always been the
  |case on windows-like systems.
  |
  |Obsolete makefiles for the DesqView environment have been removed.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.177     +2 -3      ports/print/ghostscript8/Makefile
  1.69      +3 -3      ports/print/ghostscript8/distinfo
  1.2       +8 -12     ports/print/ghostscript8/files/patch-src-Makefile.in
  1.50      +1 -2      ports/print/ghostscript8/pkg-plist