[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[William]

> In case nobody else has followed up, Ghostscript will no longer support 
> an older version of its PDF interpreter: 

ghostscript will continue to support PDF. The only change is that starting with gs 10, the PDF parser is implemented in C instead of in postscript for better performance and for cleaner support of PDF features that don't exist in postscript. Normal users should not notice any difference. The old PDF parser required non-standard hooks in the postscript interpreter to implement some PDF features. Removing the old PDF parser will allow some clean-up of the postscript parser to bring it closer to the postscript standard and to reduce its attack space.

On Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 11:40:25 PM UTC+1, Louis Krupp wrote:
> On 12/12/2022 5:33 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote: 
> > <snip> 
> > Perhaps marginally related: I heard recently that GhostScript is 
> > dropping support for PostScript or something like that. Also, I think 
> > that the PostScript source is now publicly available. 
> 
> In case nobody else has followed up, Ghostscript will no longer support 
> an older version of its PDF interpreter: 
> 
> https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/News.html 
> 
> Ghostscript's support of PostScript continues: 
> 
> https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Language.html 
> 
> Louis