GPL Ghostscript 8.56

Artifex Software, Inc. and artofcode LLC are pleased to announce the release of GPL Ghostscript 8.56. This is the latest in the 8.5x stable series.

This new release has seen a great deal of work to improve conformance with the Quality Logic PS CET suite. Where close imitation of the reference implementation is required, we now provide a 'gs_cet.ps' helper file which can be prefixed to a job to set certain optional defaults.

Also new in this release:

• Better support for 64 bit platforms.
• The .ps library files and Resources tree are now compiled into Ghostscript by default. This means -Ilib is no longer needed when running gs uninstalled. Run './configure --disable-compile-inits' or set COMPILE_INITS=0 in the makefile to recover the old behaviour. The library files are still installed for reference.
• New '-o <outputfile>' convenience option for writing output to a file. This is equivalent to '-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=<outputfile>'.
• Numerous bug fixes and rendering improvements.

See the file doc/Changes.htm in the distribution for a complete list of changes.

The release is available from the usual locations:

 http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs856/
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108733&release_id=493869

MD5 checksums:

 498015a278308d147bea563be2c5165e  ghostscript-8.56.tar.bz2
 dcf20574f85b3c302e8982dcf427eb7c  ghostscript-8.56.tar.gz
 6865682b095f8c4500c54b285ff05ef6  ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz
 19ad73b2b3f1c06ceddce29688de190d  gs856os2.zip
 800b7c3ceba7a07fe14478c44d9f48ec  gs856w32.exe
 237c58c1f2fa66fff08ef3331680d1c9  gs856w64.exe

Thanks to everyone whose hard work made this release possible!