
This is GNU Ghostscript version 8.xx.

GNU Ghostscript is an interpreter for the Postscript language and the
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), a set of C procedures (the
Ghostscript lib) that implements the graphics capabilities that appear
as primitive operations in the Postscript language and in PDF, and a
set of utility programs that include the ability to convert PostScript
to PDF.

The main changes since the last release (8.01) are improved font
rendering, offers significantly better PDF generation and handling
over GNU ghostscript 8.01, support for running Ghostscript in job
server mode, so that multiple jobs can be piped to a since executable
instance as if it were a printer. Just invoke gs with the new
-dJOBSERVER switch and delimit jobs on stdin with ^D.  See the Usage
documentation for more details. Many other bug fixes are also present.

GNU Ghostscript is based on the GPLed Ghostscript made by Ralph Giles,
artofcode LLC and Artifex Software, Inc.  Thanks to Ralph's hard work
for making this release of Ghostscript possible. Also thanks to Andy
Tai from the GNU project for the hard work on GNU Ghostscript versions
before 8.16. Also thanks to Didier Link from the GNU project for his
maintenance effort that leaded to GNU Ghostscript 8.16.

GNU Ghostscript is copyrighted by artofcode LLC and released under the
GNU General Public License.  A copy of the license is included in the
file called COPYING in this distribution.  You can also get a copy of
the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA, 02110-1301 or
on the World Wide Web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

GNU Ghostscript is maintained by Didier Link (didier.link@wanadoo.fr)
and Jose E. Marchesi (jemarch@gnu.org).  For bugs or issues regarding
the GNU version of Ghostscript, please send them to
bug-ghostscript@gnu.org.  Please do not contact artofcode LLC or Ralph
Giles for bugs or support issues in this version of Ghostscript as
they are not responsible for it.

GNU Ghostscript is available from

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ghostscript/

and GNU ftp mirror sites worldwide.


Jose E. Marchesi
jemarch@gnu.org
