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  • Recent version of GhostScript?

    From Rob Hemmings (News)@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 5 14:28:11 2020
    Does anyone know if there is a port of GhostScript version 9.05 or later
    for RISC OS? I want to use it to calculate ink costs for printing and at
    the moment I can only do that on Windows as the RISC OS version I have (GhostScript 8.71) does not have the necessary device type.

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    Rob Hemmings Southport

    rhnews@dsl.pipex.com

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  • From Chris Gransden@21:1/5 to rhnews@dsl.pipex.com on Fri Jun 5 17:57:16 2020
    In article <587bddb3e9rhnews@dsl.pipex.com>,
    Rob Hemmings (News) <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
    Does anyone know if there is a port of GhostScript version 9.05 or later
    for RISC OS? I want to use it to calculate ink costs for printing and at
    the moment I can only do that on Windows as the RISC OS version I have (GhostScript 8.71) does not have the necessary device type.

    I've done a port of ghostscript 9.26. I can make it available for download
    at some point over the weekend.

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    Email: chrisg@care4free.net

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  • From freak67SPAMOhNo@freakmail.de@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 5 23:52:35 2020
    In Nachricht <587bf0d867chrisg@care4free.net>
    Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> haben Sie geschrieben:

    I've done a port of ghostscript 9.26. I can make it available for download
    at some point over the weekend.

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    Email: chrisg@care4free.net

    Hallo Chris,

    that would be very nice :-) , as I'm also interested in a newer
    version.


    TIA,
    Juergen

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  • From Chris Gransden@21:1/5 to freak67SPAMOhNo@freakmail.de on Sat Jun 6 08:51:55 2020
    In article <e4e10b7c58.JF@freak67>,
    <freak67SPAMOhNo@freakmail.de> wrote:
    In Nachricht <587bf0d867chrisg@care4free.net>
    Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> haben Sie geschrieben:

    I've done a port of ghostscript 9.26. I can make it available for download at some point over the weekend.

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    Email: chrisg@care4free.net

    Hallo Chris,

    that would be very nice :-) , as I'm also interested in a newer
    version.

    Ghostscript 9.26 can be downloaded from https://www.riscosports.co.uk/downloads.html. It uses more memory than
    previous versions so RISC OS 5.2x is recommended. This version also
    includes the gpcl6 and gxps commands. These have only been briefly tested.

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    Email: chrisg@care4free.net

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  • From Rob Hemmings@21:1/5 to Chris Gransden on Sat Jun 6 11:01:22 2020
    In article <587bf0d867chrisg@care4free.net>,
    Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> wrote:
    In article <587bddb3e9rhnews@dsl.pipex.com>,
    Rob Hemmings (News) <rhnews@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
    Does anyone know if there is a port of GhostScript version 9.05 or later for RISC OS? I want to use it to calculate ink costs for printing and at the moment I can only do that on Windows as the RISC OS version I have (GhostScript 8.71) does not have the necessary device type.

    I've done a port of ghostscript 9.26. I can make it available for download
    at some point over the weekend.

    That is great news, thanks very much.

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    Rob Hemmings Southport

    Tel: +44 (0)1704 573210 rhemmings@rgvk.co.uk

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  • From Doug Webb@21:1/5 to Chris Gransden on Sat Jun 6 15:51:04 2020
    In message <587c42c0b8chrisg@care4free.net>
    Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> wrote:


    Ghostscript 9.26 can be downloaded from https://www.riscosports.co.uk/downloads.html. It uses more memory than previous versions so RISC OS 5.2x is recommended. This version also
    includes the gpcl6 and gxps commands. These have only been briefly tested.

    Hi Chris,

    Downloaded and tested by printing a couple of documents using !PS3 driver/PDFMaker/PrintPDF and it seems ok on ARMX6 5.27 19-Jun-2020 ROM.

    Thanks once again for supporting us all.

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    5.27.

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  • From druck@21:1/5 to chrisg@care4free.net on Fri Jun 12 11:34:40 2020
    On 6 Jun 2020 Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> wrote:

    In article <e4e10b7c58.JF@freak67>,
    <freak67SPAMOhNo@freakmail.de> wrote:
    In Nachricht <587bf0d867chrisg@care4free.net>
    Chris Gransden <chrisg@care4free.net> haben Sie geschrieben:

    I've done a port of ghostscript 9.26. I can make it available for download >>> at some point over the weekend.

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    Email: chrisg@care4free.net

    Hallo Chris,

    that would be very nice :-) , as I'm also interested in a newer
    version.

    Ghostscript 9.26 can be downloaded from https://www.riscosports.co.uk/downloads.html. It uses more memory than previous versions so RISC OS 5.2x is recommended. This version also
    includes the gpcl6 and gxps commands. These have only been briefly tested.

    I've had a breif play with some ancient postscript files, and I'm afraid
    it's not as good as my previous version 8.71 - RISC OS 1.02 (18-Apr-06)

    There were a couple more failures to process in postscript engine abd one
    ps file had incorrect colours. Most of the ones which displayed had much fainter lines and text than the old version, but this could be down to a setting somewhere.

    ---druck

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