AFPL Ghostscript 8.53

Artifex Software, Inc. and artofcode LLC are pleased to announce the release of AFPL Ghostscript 8.53. This is a maintenance release in the stable 8.5x series.

The main features included in 8.53 are:

Numerous bug fixes and improvements, particularly in the area DeviceN (spot color) handling and the PDF interpreter.
The pdfwrite device can now create PDF/X-3 compliant documents using the lib/PDFX_def.ps prefix approach. See doc/Ps2pdf.htm documentation.
A Beta version level 2 Postscript output device, ps2write, which generates high-level PostScript including text and images and graphics.
A rendering performance enhancement for PDF's with transparency (10x to 90x on files with many small transparency regions/groups).

Downloads

AFPL Ghostscript 8.53 is available from the following locations:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs853/

and their mirrors.

For those that want to verify the checksums after download:

MD5SUMS

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SHA1SUMS

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Thanks to everyone who contributed!