PDF Conversion via Ghostscript

PDF Conversion via Ghostscript

[Lar Kaufman]

More on PDF conversion: latest ghostscript RPM announced on
comp.os.linux.announce.

> From: Eze Ogwuma <zcaceog@ucl.ac.uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
> Subject: Ghostscript 5.10-6 RPMS available
> Date: Thu,  9 Jul 1998 11:09:12 GMT
> 
> New RPMS of Ghostscript 5.10 are now available. RPMS of the latest
> fonts and manuals are also available.
> 
> Get them and more information from <http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk>.
> These files will also be uploaded to the Red Hat Incoming directory
> and will eventually move to the contrib hierarchy.
> 
> Read the README files.
> 
> This RPM includes Epson Stylus drivers up to 1440 dpi as well as
> several HP drivers not found in the standard Ghostscript
> distribution. Some of the HP printers these work on are the HP 500,
> 500C, 510, 520, 540, 550C, 560C, 670, 690, 820C, 850C, 855C, 870, 890,
> 1100 and 1600 as well as all PCL-3 printers tested.  There are lots of
> docs for these drivers and a man page for the hpdj driver.
> 
> This RPM includes all the post release patches up to and including
> June 26 1998. This RPM also includes support for True Type fonts. See
> the file fonts.txt for instructions.
> 
> There is additional information on <http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk>
> including information on a workaround for a pdf2ps bug.
> 
> 
> Drivers
> =======
> 
> Some of the included drivers drivers are:
> 
> vgalib : vga consoles
> 
> lvga256: vga consoles
> 
> stcolor: Epson Stylus
> 
> uniprint: Epson Stylus Color, Canon BJC 610, HP-Deskjet 550c, NEC
> Pinwriter P2X
> 
> djet820c: HP 820Cse and 820Cxi (possibly HP 1000Cse and 1000Cxi
> printers)
> 
> hp850: HP 670, 690, 850, 855, 870, 890, 1100, 1600 and similar
> hp-colour printers
> 
> hpdj: HP 500, 500C, 510, 520, 540, 550C, 560C, 850C and 855C (possibly
> all PCL-3 printers)
> 
> Run "gs -h" to see the full list of drivers. The files devs.mak,
> devices.txt and use.txt hold information on the included drivers and
> using the program.
> 
> Verification
> ============
> 
> All packages are PGP signed by me. The libc ghostscript binary is also
> signed by jam@acm.org who kindly rebuilt the SRPM on a RH 4.2 system
> for me.
> 
> Note: The ghostscript-5.10-5.i386.rpm that was in contrib for a while
> was not built by me even though I was listed as packager. If you
> download the RPMS from the Red Hat contrib directory or a mirror check
> the PGP signatures.
> 
> md5sums
> =======
> 
> Glibc
> 
> 1037d6d50ee64c826c3c63437f7585e3  ghostscript-5.10-6.i386.rpm 
> 
> Libc
> 
> 47e7b282ad7bbb2ab48948324e079231  ghostscript-5.10-6.i386.rpm
> 
> Fonts
> 
> 84749b88a08033dd753847b5c9a906af ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10-6.noarch.rpm  
> 
> 4d3c2f6623ab5b56c1772a5cfb142691 ghostscript-fonts-other-5.10-6.noarch.rpm

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Re: PDF Conversion via Ghostscript

[Jason White]

I greatly appreciate the Ghostscript details. Indeed, I plan to install
the latest version as soon as my Linux system is working, which should be
relatively soon (the speech synthesizer is due next week).