Changes in the most recent release of Ghostscript

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 3.n
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History of Ghostscript versions 1.n

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Version 7.32 (2002-11-02)

This is the second beta release in preparation for 8.0. The most notable new feature is Well Tempered Screening, which now works for angles of 0 and 45 degrees as well.

To test WTS, set the UseWTS user parameter:

<< /UseWTS true >> setuserparams

Also make sure you're not in a banding mode (setting -dMaxBitmap=500000000 should work), and that your halftone dictionaries set /AccurateScreens.

A fair number of bugfixes have also made it into this release, including a fix for the slow rendering of PDF's in GhostView-derived viewers.

The following SourceForge bug numbers were open at the time of this release: 405342, 407342, 414947, 414985, 446344, 458261, 458775, 458780, 459647, 465936, 484752, 484753, 487953, 493348, 505429, 510808, 526099, 526491, 530011, 535366, 535752, 535836, 538033, 539239, 546823, 554076, 558151, 558435, 563287, 569573, 570772, 573744, 578838, 578865, 584990, 592160, 592837, 592841, 592925, 592930, 595760, 596009, 598014, 600281, 600288, 601255, 601336, 601694, 602995, 603934, 605830, 607425, 607850, 608520, 609488, 610356, 610478, 610727, 611694, 611701, 611727, 611898, 612801, 614298, 615165, 615994, 616970, 616976, 617077, 617523, 621243, 621246, 623122, 623292, 623989, 624515, 625085, 626059, 626295, 626358, 626419, 626464, 627545, 628110, 628542, 628557, 629116, 629335, 629961, 631180, 631974.

Incompatible changes

The UseWTS user parameter has been added.







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Ghostscript version 7.32, 2 November 2002