January 4, 2000
Ghostscript 6.0 is a watershed event for Artifex. Ghostscript 6.0 introduces the following new capabilities to the well established Ghostscript architecture:
Artifex Software Inc. announces the release of Ghostscript 6.0 -- a commercially complete, multi-platform, high-performance, independent implementation of Adobe's PostScript LanguageLevel 3 page description language and PDF 1.3 document format. The PostScript language interpreter has passed the exhaustive Genoa test suites for PostScript LanguageLevel 3, ensuring compatibility and completeness with respect to Adobe's published standards.
Being based on Aladdin's long-established cross-platform Ghostscript architecture, Ghostscript 6.0 is immediately portable to all Ghostscript platforms (MS-DOS, MS Windows, Windows NT, Unix / Linux, Macintosh, OpenVMS, OS/2, and embedded) and output devices (displays and window systems, raster file formats like TIFF, and a wide variety of printers and plotters).
Artifex Software Inc., founded in 1993, has become known in the past 6 years for its exceptional PostScript and PDF software as a commercial supplier of fully competitive RIP technology to a wide variety of companies in the printing and document processing industries.
In addition to the rasterization capability for which Ghostscript has been long known, Ghostscript 6.0 features true high-level conversion from PostScript to PDF. Users may now convert PostScript files to PDF maintaining the text, font, and vector graphics information from the original file. The output files are competitive in size and quality with the output of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM). Essentially all of Acrobat Distiller's image compression, resampling, and color space conversion facilities are available, as well as other capabilities such as control of font subsetting. Users may choose between Acrobat 3 and Acrobat 4 compatible output. This distilling option is available from Artifex's PostScript interpreter coupled with our PDF Writer.
In addition to implementing PostScript LanguageLevel 3 and PDF 1.3, Ghostscript 6.0 also unifies the
underlying graphics library for Artifex's family of PCL interpreters. Our customers may now run PostScript,
PDF, PCL5e (monochrome), PCL 5c (color), PCLXL (monochrome or color), and PCL6 (dual PCL) all on the
same graphics library, with auto-detection and auto-switching from one language format to another.
Artifex Software has acquired the right to distribute Zenographic's Windows drivers for PCL5e, PCL5c, and
PCLXL for Window 95/98/2000/NT from Zenographics, Inc. of Irvine, California. In conjunction with the
newly acquired Windows drivers from Zenographics, Artifex now offers the most complete family of PDL
solutions available from any source.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that Hewlett Packard's Personal Media Operation Division has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PostScript LanguageLevel 3 and PDF 1.3 interpreters within future releases of Hewlett Packard's "HP Instant Delivery" application.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that WIZnet has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PostScript LanguageLevel 3 and PDF 1.3 interpreters within future releases of WIZnet's "eCommerce Portal" internet catalog software product.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that ITEC Corporation of Rancho Bernardo, California has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PCL interpreter within future embedded ITEC printer controller products.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that Zenographics, Inc. of Irvine has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PostScript interpreter within Zenographic's SuperPrint and Zscript printer driver applications.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that Pape and Partner Media GmbH of Hamburg, Germany has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PostScript interpreter within Pape and Partner Media's newspaper workflow and pre-flight applications.
Artifex Software Inc. of San Rafael, California is pleased to announce that PixoArts of Mountain View, California has signed an OEM Agreement to distribute Artifex's PostScript interpreter within PixoArts "Picaxo 2000" graphics composition and wide format printer driver application.
