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Press Release

February 18, 2010

Artifex releases 8.71 Ghostscript & 8.71 GhostPDL

These latest releases of Ghostscript are available for immediate download.

8.71 Ghostscript

Artifex is happy to announce the release of Ghostscript 8.71 and GhostPDL 8.71.

This is second in this series of stable Ghostscript and GhostPDL releases. New in this release is an experimental project file for Microsoft Visual Studio. This wraps the normal nmake build, and makes it easier for developers to get started building Ghostscript with that compiler.

Support for tiff file output is now provided using the libtiff implementation rather than our more limited native code as in previous releases. There is also a new 'tiffsepl' output device which produces halftoned separations at 1 bit-per-pixel, in contrast to the 'tiffsep' device which produces 8 bit-per-pixel plates.

Support for using FreeType as a type rasterizer has been greatly improved. We do not recommend its use as of this release, but it is much more functional than previously and our intent is that it will become the default in a future release.

The graphics library has been updated to provide more accurate scan conversion of vector art including fixes to dash behavior, transparent stroked paths, thick stroked paths, radial shadings, xps cap handling, "pie" joins, degenerate beziers, improved handling of dropouts in thin strokes and better thin axis-aligned strokes.
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Artifex is a leading core technology provider with the most comprehensive software solution for the embedded printing market. Artifex's Ghostscript offers all the major leading Page Distribution Languages (PDLs) including Portable Document Format (PDF), Postscript, XPS "Metro", PCL5e/c, and PCLXL (together = PCL6), along with high-performance screening technologies and a combination of fonts compatible with leading printers. No other software vendor offers a solution this complete. Millions of users have benefited from its ability to preview documents on the screen or provide high quality raster for hardcopy output. In addition, Artifex's Ghostscript combines the tools, information and technical support needed in order to meet the reliability and performance requirements of its OEM customers. Artifex's Ghostscript has been integrated with over 80 OEM customers' products, including: activePDF, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kyocera, Macromedia and Xerox. Artifex's Ghostscript software solution set operates on all major platforms as well as most embedded system CPU's.