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This is the first beta release for the upcoming 7.0 release. This fileset adds ICC profile support using Graeme Gill's icclib, and the new DLL interface from Russell Lang.
All problems registered on SourceForge numbered 409245 or lower are closed, except for the following: 201955, 202735, 206652, 209350, 213799, 215256, 219677, 219798, 220967, 221582, 222534, 222683, 222727, 223005, 223091, 223754, 223896, 223992, 224056, 224095, 224134, 224205, 224863, 226364, 226391, 226462, 226477, 226584, 226943, 227090, 227190, 227276, 227382, 227651, 227684, 227709, 228180, 228354, 228423, 228641, 228714, 228788, 228808, 229439, 230694, 230699, 231390, 232334, 232696, 233403, 404255, 404255, 404482, 404933, 405313, 406285, 406643, 406689, 406694, 406696, 406699, 406979, 407342, 409105, 409133, 409244, 409245. Note that, since the 6.61 release, SourceForge has renumbered all bugs in the 1xxxxx range by adding 100000 (thus, they are now 2xxxxxx).
(Interpreter) - With WMode = 1, CID-keyed fonts with no Metrics2 now use default metrics computed from FontBBox rather than the horizontal metrics. (PDF interpreter) - The interpreter now skips to the next EOL after reading the data following the ID operator. - The incorrectly named ViewerOrientation DSC comment is now corrected to ViewingOrientation. (Streams) - All decoding filters that recognize an EOD in the source data must now have an init procedure that sets state->min_left = 1. (Library) - The glyph_data, subr_data, and seac_data procedures in a Type 1 font (gs_type1_data_procs), and the glyph_data procedure passed to psf_{check,get}_outline_glyphs, must now return 1 iff the outline string was newly allocated and should be freed by the caller, like the get_outline procedure of Type 42 fonts (gs_type42_data). - The ip_state structure is renamed ip_state_t, and has a new member, free_char_string. - The incorrectly named ViewerOrientation DSC comment is now corrected to ViewingOrientation, and the viewer_orientation members of the DSC parsing structure are corrected to viewing_orientation.
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Ghostscript version 6.62, 19 March 2001