GPL Ghostscript 9.02

Artifex Software is happy to announce a new stable release of GPL Ghostscript and GhostPDL.

This is the third release in the stable 9.x series. The corresponding GhostPDL release is 9.02.

Source packages are available from:

• http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.02.tar.gz
• http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostpdl-9.02.tar.bz2

And from the following mirrors:

• http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs902/
• http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/ghostpdl/
• http://code.google.com/p/ghostscript/downloads/list
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/files/GPL%20Ghostscript/9.02/

SHA-1 checksums:

MD5 checksums:

• 86cc3a0509c0d96a641d58879d54274b ghostscript-9.02.tar.gz
• f67151444bd56a7904579fc75a083dd6 ghostscript-9.02.tar.bz2

Highlights in this release include:

For monochrome devices, there is a new halftone technique for sampled image data. The existing technique is very efficient (and IS STILL USED) for large areas of color, such as an area fill, but encountered performance problems dealing with sampled image data where a given colour value only covered a few pixels at a time. The new approach applies the halftone threshold array directly to the image samples.

Further performance, memory use, and stability improvements with the new features introduced in 9.00, as well as Unix/Linux build fixes, plus the usual assorted bug fixes.

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.

Microsoft Windows

gs902w32.exe, GPL Ghostscript 9.02 for 32-bit Windows (the common variety).
gs902w64.exe, GPL Ghostscript 9.02 for 64-bit Windows (x86_64).

GSview

If using 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.