This document is news about the most recent Ghostscript release. For earlier versions, see the history documents:
History of Ghostscript versions 7.n
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History of Ghostscript versions 5.n
History of Ghostscript versions 4.n
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For other information, see the Ghostscript overview.
This is the first beta release in preparation for 8.0. A great many bugs have been fixed since the 7.30 alpha release, and it should be stable for most users. Two features planned for 8.0 are not yet fully functional, however: subpixel positioning of antialiased text, and Well Tempered Screening (the latter can be enabled for experimentation, but does not work for 0 and 45 degree angles).
The following SourceForge bug numbers were open at the time of the last release: 405342, 407342, 414947, 414985, 434277, 446344, 446672, 458261, 458775, 458780, 459647, 465720, 465936, 468762, 484752, 484753, 485510, 487953, 493348, 505429, 508081, 509646, 510808, 513905, 517349, 526099, 526491, 528647, 530011, 530588, 535366, 535752, 535836, 538033, 538428, 539239, 542848, 543185, 546823, 552989, 554076, 558151, 558435, 563287, 567421, 567773, 569573, 570772, 572119, 573744, 576591, 576591, 578838, 578865, 583413, 584990, 591768, 592160, 592164, 592837, 592841, 592925, 592930, 594582, 595375, 595378, 595760, 596009, 598014, 600281, 600288, 601255, 601336, 601694, 602739, 602995, 603577, 603689, 603934, 604884, 604886, 605830, 607425, 607819, 607850, 608520, 609488, 609494, 609809, 610040, 610356, 610359, 610478, 610727, 611463, 611694, 611701, 611727, 611898, 612801, 613165, 613909, 613909, 614298, 614299, 615165, 615620, 615994, 616970, 616976, 617077, 617523, 620420, 620865, 620968, 621243, 621246, 621293, 623122, 623292, 623989, 624082, 624168, 624493, 624515.
A few regressions remain. See the archives of the regression report for more details. Another known issue is slow rendering of PDF's from GSView and Ghostview family viewers.
The -dDOPS flag (to enable DoPS processing) is now disabled by default, as it is a more reasonable default. Thus, any files which depend on DoPS will now break unless this flag is set.
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This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or implied. This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. For more information about licensing, please refer to http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.
Ghostscript version 7.31, 17 October 2002