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  • Recent version of GhostScript?

    From Rob Hemmings (News)@rhnews@dsl.pipex.com to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Fri Jun 5 14:28:11 2020
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    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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  • From Chris Gransden@chrisg@care4free.net to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Fri Jun 5 17:57:16 2020
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    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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  • From freak67SPAMOhNo@freak67SPAMOhNo@freakmail.de to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Fri Jun 5 23:52:35 2020
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    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@chrisg@care4free.net to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Sat Jun 6 08:51:55 2020
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    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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  • From Rob Hemmings@rhemmings@rgvk.co.uk to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Sat Jun 6 11:01:22 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.programmer

    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@doug.j.webb@btinternet.com to comp.sys.acorn.programmer on Sat Jun 6 15:51:04 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.programmer

    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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    Experience the future using ARM Technology - ARMBook,BeagleBoard -xM, PandaBoard,Raspberry Pi,iMX6/ARMX6,IGEPv5 & Titanium powered by RISC OS
    5.27.
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