Ghostscript Updated

[cday]

Ghostscript 9.15 released 2014-09-22 :

Release notes: http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/News.htm

Download: http://ghostscript.com/download/

XnView software requires Ghostscript installed to open PDF files.

Install Ghostscript 32-bit for 32-bit software and Ghostscript 64-bit for 64-bit software.

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.20
Released on 2016-09-26

Download: http://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html
Release notes: http://ghostscript.com/Releases.html

XnView software requires Ghostscript x86 or 32-bit installed to open PDF files even on Windows x64 systems

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.23
Released on 2018-03-21

Download: http://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html
Release notes: http://ghostscript.com/Releases.html

XnView software requires Ghostscript installed to open PDF files and some other file types.

Install Ghostscript x86 32-bit for 32-bit software *even on Windows x64*, and Ghostscript 64-bit for 64-bit software.

For futher information please see the Wiki.

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.27
Released on 2019-04-4

Download: http://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html

Sorry Folks, there are no REAL Release notes!
Announcing the date of release isn't informing the end user of exact changes dammit!

XnView software requires Ghostscript installed to open PDF files and some other file types.

Install Ghostscript x86 32-bit for 32-bit software *even on Windows x64*, and Ghostscript 64-bit for 64-bit software.

For futher information please see the Wiki.

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.50 has been Released!
ALL compatibility with XnView Classic and XnViewMP has been thrown out the window, thanks gs-devs good work!

Use 9.27 until further notice

[cday]

Ghostscript 9.50 has been Released!
ALL compatibility with XnView Classic and XnViewMP has been thrown out the window, thanks gs-devs good work!

Use 9.27 until further notice

Ghostscript Version 9.50 Release Notes


The following seems to be the link for downloading Ghostscript 9.28, scroll down for the Windows x32 and x64 downloads:

Ghostscript 9.28

Confusingly Ghostscript 9.27 seems to be the latest official prior release.

@ckit Can you elaborate on the issue with Ghostscript 9.50?

[ckit]

XnView Classic and XnViewMP no longer recognise or can open PDF files!
No thumbnail creation and No View mode in either case

Ghostscript 9.27 is Gold for me atm, 9.28 is RC4 for now so I'll wait for Final before trying it

[cday]

Looks like the issue might date back to 9.27 as detailed here if anyone can understand it!

Hopefully Pierre can easily edit the XnView applications code to restore normal operation?

[ckit]

Huge Thank you to Pierre!
The NEW XnView Classic 2.49.2 and XnViewMP 0.94.1 supports Ghostscript 9.50

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.53.1 has been Released!
https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.53.3 has been Released!
https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html

[ckit]

Ghostscript 9.54.0 (2021-03-19)
... a maintenance release, and also adds new functionality.
Highlights in this release include:

Overprint simulation is now available to all output devices, allowing quality previewing/proofing of PostScript and PDF jobs that rely on overprint. See the -dOverprint option documentation in: Overprint

The "docxwrite" device adds the ability to output to Microsoft Word "docx" (it currently only handles text). See: docxwrite

The pdfwrite device is now capable of using the Tesseract OCR engine when it is built into Ghostscript to improve searchability and copy and paste functionality when the input lacks the metadata for that purpose. See: UseOCR

Ghostscript/GhostPDL now includes a "map text to black" function, where text drawn by an input job (except when drawn using a Type 3 font) can be forced to draw in solid black. See: BlackText

Ghostscript/GhostPDL now supports simple N-up imposition "internally". See: NupControl

Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue.

The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

(9.53.0) We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image "wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).

Mainly due to time constraints, we only support including Tesseract from source included in our release packages, and not linking to Tesseract/Leptonica shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will be largely dependent on community demand for the feature.

See Enabling OCR for more details.

https://www.ghostscript.com/download.html

[cday]

What it would be useful to know is whether the frequent recent changes have added any functionality to xnview software? Pierre?

And whether the latest 9.54 version has again broken compatibility with current xnview software releases?

If new releases are adding no additional functionality to xnview software, and repeatedly breaking compatibility, maybe it would be better to stay with a nominated release and announce which version should be used? The nominated version could be displayed in the warning displayed when Ghostscript is not found when required, and the Ghostscript wiki entry would need to be edited.

[xnview]

What it would be useful to know is whether the frequent recent changes have added any functionality to xnview software? Pierre?

And whether the latest 9.54 version has again broken compatibility with current xnview software releases?

If new releases are adding no additional functionality to xnview software, and repeatedly breaking compatibility, maybe it would be better to stay with a nominated release and announce which version should be used? The nominated version could be displayed in the warning displayed when Ghostscript is not found when required, and the Ghostscript wiki entry would need to be edited.

There is no change in PDF loading. You have problem with 9.54?

[ckit]

Ghostscript Version 10.00.0 (2022-08-18)
Highlights in this release include:

The big change in this release is that the old PDF interpreter (written in PostScript) is now fully deprecated. We will not be making any further changes to it. For this release, the -dNEWPDF=false option remains for "emergency" use, but the option to fall back to the old intepreter will also be removed in the next full release (10.01.0) in spring 2023.

So we once again encourage all users to test the new interpreter in their use cases, and report any problems.

The new PDF interpreter written in C has had several performance improvements. It was already quicker for the majority of cases than the PostScript implementation, but we found further improvements for common cases, and also several speed improvements in edge cases.

Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue.

The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

(9.53.0) We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image "wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).

Mainly due to time constraints, we only support including Tesseract from source included in our release packages, and not linking to Tesseract/Leptonica shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will be largely dependent on community demand for the feature.

Download -> https://www.ghostscript.com/releases/index.html