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This is Gerben Wierda's free binary distribution of AFPL Ghostscript 8 for Mac OS X. Ghostscript is an Open Source implementation of the PostScript page description language.

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Ghostscript  8 i-Package release notes

2008/10/07:
• Requires Mac OS X 10.5
2008/07/24:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.91
• Repairs missing X11 link for Pre-Leopard systems running Leopard-compiled software
2008/07/08:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.90
• Using improved i-Installer uninstall mechanism so old junk from previous versions is removed as well. This mechanism requires configuration of the i-Package as it changes (e.g. using new gs versions) so reports on stuff not removed on uninstall is welcome.
2008/07/05:
• Rebuilt because of a bug in Mac OS X 10.5.4's (and probably earlier versions) tar
2008/06/03:
• Rebuilt in an attempt to fix a problem with deployment on Mac OS X 10.4.
2008/05/31:
• Rebuilt because my fontconfig contained a dependency on an old apr that was installed by SVN years ago
2008/05/30:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.89
2008/05/10:
• Ghostscript 8.62
2007/05/17:
• Ghostscript 8.57
2007/03/21:
• Ghostscript 8.56
2006/10/29:
• i-Packages running the remove phase as part of the prepare phase need the remove script as dependency for the prepare script in the TOC
2006/10/11:
• Requires i-Installer 2.83 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
2006/09/23:
• Requires i-Installer 2.79 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
• Recompiled against newer libraries (e.g. PNG 1.2.12)
2006/06/21:
• Ghostscript 8.54 (GPL version) but now also for ppc
2006/06/19:
• Ghostscript 8.54 (GPL version)
2006/05/01:
• Ghostscript 8.53
2006/02/06:
• Recompile on 10.4.3 Intel and 10.3.9 PPC without dependency on the shared PNG library.
2006/01/25:
• First fat compile (intel + i386)
• Dependent on libpng i-Package
2005/10/17:
• Removed dead code from setloginpath
2005/05/06:
• Improved check for X11
2005/04/19:
• Ghostscript 8.51.
2004/12/20:
• Ghostscript 8.50
2004/10/29:
• Ghostscript 8.32
2004/01/29:
• Rebuilt and released to all repositories
2004/01/14:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.27.0 or later to install.
2004/01/05:
• Ghostscript 8.13
2003/07/19:
• Forgot to remove two files during remove phase. Buglet fix.
2003/06/16:
• Added CLI-maintenance to configuration phase.
2003/04/16:
• Fixed error in table of contents with updatestatus in iibless
2003/03/19:
• This ghostscript configure does not detect libpng very well. Hacked PNG support in by hand.
2003/03/18:
• The archive has been recreated to prevent as much as possible the directory ownership problem that still exists with i-Installer due to gnutar behaviour.
2003/03/14:
• Less strict test for X11 availability.
2003/03/13:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.12.0 or later to install.
2003/02/23:
• Tried to fix problem with X11 verssion of X11 and non-X11 supporting release. Only slightly tested.
2003/02/21:
• X11 and non-X11 supporting release. Only slightly tested.
2003/02/19:
• First i-Installer release