gs v8.51 segfaults and info

Roberto Ragusa — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:32:13 -0000

There was a change between gs 8.50 and 8.51 which breaks
usages with epsonepl.

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688048

The fix is already committed to gs, and will be integrated to
gs 8.53 (?the next release) when it is released.

That means, out of the recent gs 8.x releases, only 8.15
and 8.50 works unmodified (8.00 and 8.14 needs one
patch, 8.51 needs a different patch).

Debian Segfaults, and new ghostscript .deb's.

Roberto Ragusa — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:59:09 -0000

Special thanks to Till Kamppeter for tracking down segfault
problem of ghostscript on Debian to a KRGB patch that that
hpijs people recommends, and is shipped by Debian for a while.
(see discussion in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=294430\)

These versions and later are problematic:

gs-gpl (8.01-5) - Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:03:15 +0900

gs-esp (7.07.1-8) Sun, 30 May 2004 20:50:00 +0900

gs-afpl has a different problem.
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256787)

So I am sorry to say that none of the ghostscript packages
currently shipped by debian is usable. Florian had kindly
been providing replacement package for many months now.
http://www.boelstler.net/gs-afpl_8.14-3_i386.deb

I have just uploaded 2 whole set of debian packages
onto sourceforge, and you should get the font package
as well. (ghostscript is not particularly sensitive to the fonts, so either 8.00 and 8.14 should work with the same font sets).
They were built on debian testing,
with rpm and alien, so probably doesn't quite fit into Debian's
scheme of things. You should remove every debian distributed
gs-gpl/gs-esp/gs-afpl before installing these.

black pages, patched ghostscript

Roberto Ragusa — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:47:25 -0000

ghostscript 7.22-8.14 has a bug,
where pages print black.
Sent in patch and fixed in March 204 in gs 8.14+;
patched binary packages provided here
for convenience. See mailing list discussion.

0.4.0 released.

Roberto Ragusa — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:20:26 -0000

Been very over-due. Last summer we say we would
release 0.4.0 when *6100L* support stabilises!
(and we have since added 6200L).

v0.4.0pre5 fixes problem with 6200L

Roberto Ragusa — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:33:30 -0000

there was a serious bug with 0.4.0pre3 regarding
new 6200L support.

misc updates.

sync'ed with linuxprinting.org

Roberto Ragusa — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:10:31 -0000

brought foomatic related XML files up-to-date and
synchronised with linuxprinting.org. Should help
CUPS integration.

v0.4.0pre3 adds preliminary 6200L support

Roberto Ragusa — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:26:53 -0000

6200L support added. not tested - YMMV.

v.0.3.0 adds 6100L support.

Roberto Ragusa — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 04:30:00 -0000

experimental 6100L support; merges of
5700L usb-flow-control code, and misc improvements.

v.0.2.2, maintainance update.

Roberto Ragusa — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 00:58:10 -0000

Bug fix with installation, and minor compression efficiency
improvement (slightly smaller spool file, at the expenses
of CPU cycles).

v.0.2.1usb in rpms, bundling PPD files

Roberto Ragusa — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 14:36:08 -0000

Just nicer packaging. See release note and
changelog.

Recent posts to news