[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] ghostscript-8.15-24mdk

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 13:50 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> -=-=-=-
> Name        : ghostscript                  Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 8.15                              Vendor: Mandriva
> Release     : 24mdk                         Build Date: Sat Jan 14 13:40:25 2006
> Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: n1.mandriva.com
> Group       : Publishing                    Source RPM: (none)
> Size        : 7816989                          License: GPL
> Signature   : (none)
> Packager    : Till Kamppeter <till@mandriva.com>
> URL         : http://www.cups.org/espgs/index.php
> Summary     : PostScript/PDF interpreter and renderer
> Description :
> Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter,
> a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the
> graphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for
> Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code
> into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer
> or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to
> print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers.
> Most applications use PostScript for printer output.
> 
> You should install ghostscript if you need to display PostScript files, or
> if you have a non-PostScript printer.
> 
> 
> 
> -=-=-=-
> Official maintainer: till@mandriva.com
> 
> -=-=-=-
> Till Kamppeter <till@mandriva.com> 8.15-24mdk
> 
> - Updated to subversion revision 128 (Patch from Werner Fink from SuSE: 
>   Fixed rendering of images when converting PostScript to PDF with 
>   "ps2pdf" (bug 19437), fixed also a crash when generating PDF files with 
>   the "pdfwrite" device).

I think this fix needs to be backported to 2006, quite a lot of users
complain of problems printing to PDF which I believe are ultimately
caused by this. Is an update for 2006 planned?
-- 
adamw

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