GPL Ghostscript 8.61

Artifex Software, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of GPL Ghostscript 8.61. This is the second release in the Ghostscript 8.6x stable series. It contains a number of bug fixes and improvements.

Note: The default device in the gcc build is now the 'x11alpha' device which provides antialiasing for display. To recover the old default behaviour add '-sDEVICE=x11' to the command line.

Source packages are available from the usual locations:

• http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs861/ghostscript-8.61.tar.bz2
• http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs861/ghostscript-8.61.tar.gz
• https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id=108733&release_id=555815

MD5 checksums

• abff0506cd249cba3ad862d8fe4f6474 ghostscript-8.61.tar.bz2
• aa55ca90b891c1b3b7402a09a2146a87 ghostscript-8.61.tar.gz
• 1f55967918c34a7eb4edb315a6502425 gs861w32.exe
• 8187166b22629d87951b2040b0ae529b gs861w64.exe

SHA-1 checksums

• b05ac61885c0370e432531ffb79de349c6e8b896 ghostscript-8.61.tar.bz2
• 1f43ec48ab13cec0ff7c499eb7ca3e6f5c0af5a3 ghostscript-8.61.tar.gz
• 05afaa29961f1d3a374b520148e658ce7dd3b03f gs861w32.exe
• 4736af5fb71118bc823fd69847307bb3092c8c61 gs861w64.exe

Thanks to everyone whose hard work made this release possible!

Post-release news

After you get this version of Ghostscript, we suggest that you track news, updates, and fixes here or at the Ghostscript website, ghostscript.com.

Mirror sites

The primary site for the Ghostscript source code is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/. The primary FTP site for the full Ghostscript release is ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/. Ghostscript is also available from many mirror sites which may be closer to you and provide faster access. Ghostscript is also available on CD-R.

Microsoft Windows

You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE

gs861w32.exe, GPL Ghostscript 8.61 for 32-bit Windows (the common variety).
gs861w64.exe, GPL Ghostscript 8.61 for 64-bit Windows (x86_64).

GSview

If using OS/2 or MS-Windows it is strongly recommended that you also get GSview, which provides a graphical interface to Ghostscript.

To unpack ZIP files, you will need an unzip program such as Info-ZIP unzip.