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[Fwd: ghostscript 6.01 or 6.50]





"George J. Wakileh" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> May I ask if anybody on the list could compile ghostscript 6.01 or 6.50?

One can build ghostscript 6.50 (and above I guess) under the basic Cygwin
(ie without xfree stuff):
to do that you have to modify the unix Makefiles distributed in the gs
sources in concequense.

>
> /cygwin/contrib has ghostscript 5.50, however it is known that this does
> not handle computer modern type 1 fonts.  Only 6.01 and above do that.

Ghostscript 6.01 and above can not be distributed within cygwin due to the
new License term:
see archive deeper information.

Cheers,
Jerome BENOIT



>
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
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