Re: Ghostscript 6.0
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's not part of gs 5.5. The differences
> > between 5.10 and 5.50 are not that big and I do not want to risk a stable
> > package just for being up to date.
>
> Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the
> license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free
> to main for potato?
The Release Notes of GNU ghostscript 5.50 say:
The content of GNU Ghostscript 5.50 is Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 with two
enhancements:
- Approximately a dozen bug fixes that were posted on the Web site
after the release.
- The expanded URW++ fonts with the full Adobe PostScript 3
character set (the additions are mostly Eastern European
characters).
cu,
Adrian
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