ANNOUNCE
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The Display Ghostscript System, version 0.5.10, is now available.

What is the Display Ghostscript System?
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   The Display Ghostscript System is functionally upward-compatible with
Adobe Display PostScript, but it has been written independently.  The
Display Ghostscript System provides a device-independent imaging model
for displaying information on a screen.  The imaging model uses the
PostScript language which has powerful graphics capabilities and frees
the programmer from display-specific details like screen resolution and
color issues.

   The Display Ghostscript System is composed of a PostScript language
interpreter (Ghostscript), the Client library, and the pswrap
translator.

   The Display Ghostscript System uses a client/server architecture.
Applications are linked with the Client library which communicates with
the PostScript interpreter residing in the server.  The application
utilizes the procedures and data structures in the Client library which
are independent of the actual PostScript interpreter.

   The pswrap translator allows you to take custom PostScript language
programs and wrap them with a C function interface thus allowing your
applications to call them directly.  pswrap programs are generally more
efficient then performing the same PostScript program purely with the
Client library procedures.

What's new in this release?
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   The currently released version of the Display Ghostscript System is
`0.5.10'.

Changes since version `0.5.9'
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   Due to serious problems in supporting multiple contexts in the
current dgs structure, we decide to rewrite dgs. Version 0.5.10 will be
the last release before this rewrite. This version is stable enough to
use with a client that uses only a single context.

   Major chagnes:

   * The CPU hogging bug at shutdown time is fixed.

   * Code clean up. Agent code is split into different files.

   * The drawing area size restriction bug is fixed.

   * Better configuration and RPM support

Where can you get it?  How can you compile it?
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   The dgs-0.5.10.tar.gz distribution file has been placed on
`ftp.gnu.org' in `gnu/dgs'.  It is also available at
`ftp.gnustep.org' in `pub/gnustep/dgs'.  However, there is currently a
limit on how much can be downloaded from this site, so please try to
download files from the main GNU ftp site or alternative GNU sites.

   The program requires gcc 2.8.0 or higher.

   The `.tar' file is compressed with GNU gzip.  Gzip can be obtained by
anonymous ftp at any of the GNU archive sites.

   The most recent (not necessarily tested) snapshots of the library
will be placed in `ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnustep/snap'.

