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some ghostscript news



Good news and bad news.

The good news is that I've updated ghostscript to 6.50 (to be gnu
ghostscript) and 7.00 (afpl ghostscript).

Specifically, the version in print/ghostscript/aladdin is a pre-version
of what's going to become gnu ghostscript 6.51 in a short while.

The old HP 850 drivers are now integrated in the `uniprint' driver.
The bad news is that they may be worse than they used to be.

>From 6.50 on, -sDEVICE=x11 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 works.
The resulting quality is significantly better than x11alpha, but
significantly slower as well.

7.00 features a new direct gtk rendering interface. The good news is that
-sDEVICE=display -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 is faster than X11
without anti-aliasing. The bad news is that gv does not talk to it.
Apparently, gtk does not have any provision to do rendering on a plain 
X-window that already exists...  of course, they should only care about
gnome, should they ?



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