Date:  Sun, 01 Dec 2002 17:57:46 -0500
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: Ghostscript v8.00 released

From: Henk Pol <hjpolatzeelandnet.nl> 

Hiho/2...

Haven't seen it mentioned somewhere but ...

Artifex Software Inc. and artofcode LLC are pleased to announce the
release of Ghostscript 8.00, the most comprehensive software solution for
page description languages. Ghostscript is a leader in PDF, PostScript,
and PCL technologies. Ghostscript 8.00 features the following new
capabilities:

    DeviceN color

    With the 8.00 release, Ghostscript now offers true DeviceN color space
support, natively rendering spot colors, multicolor images, and gradient
effects up to 8 color planes. DeviceN also affords direct and precise
control over ink balances in large format inkjet devices. Ghostscript
currently powers inkjet RIPs from Best Color GmbH, Xerox XES (in
partnership with Caldera Graphics), MacDermid/ColorSpan, and Mutoh
America.

    Spot color

    Ghostscript 8.00 fully supports spot colors and Separation color
spaces. This functionality is actually a subset of DeviceN color spaces,
and hasa high performance implementation.

    Overprint

    Ghostscript 8.00 also brings native rendering of overprint and
overprint mode, as specified in PDF 1.3, and PostScript LanguageLevel 3.
Thus, Ghostscript's power and efficiency is now brought to new domains,
including packaging, high end prepress, and others.

    Well Tempered Screening

    Integration of "Well Tempered Screening", an imagesetter-optimized
screening technology from artofcode LLC. WTS produces exact irrational
angles, as opposed to the rational supercell approximation common in most
competitive RIPs. Dots are exceptionally smooth, even at relatively high
rulings and low resolutions. Screener-induced (internal) moire is
virtually eliminated. In addition, the WTS integration provides
significantly higher throughput when rendering precise color angles than
previous Ghostscript releases.

    DiskN

    Ghostscript now implements DiskN file resources within PostScript,
significantly improving the integration with font downloading utilities. 

Ghostscript 8.00 can be downloaded from mirror.cs.wisc.edu and
sourceforge.net.

Please see Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 for more details. 


Direct download:

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs800/gs800os2.zip

-- 
With kind regards,



Henk Pol






                           

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