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This is the second beta release for the upcoming 7.0 release. This fileset contains a number of stability improvements for the new display device, integration of PDF 1.4 rendering with all devices, and the usual round of bug fixes.
All problems registered on SourceForge numbered 411753 or lower are closed, except for the following: 201955, 202735, 206652, 209350, 213799, 215256, 219798, 220967, 221582, 222534, 222727, 223005, 223754, 223896, 223992, 224056, 224095, 224863, 226477, 226584, 226943, 227090, 227684, 227709, 228180, 228641, 230694, 230699, 231390, 232334, 233403, 404255, 404482, 405313, 406285, 406643, 406689, 406696, 406979, 407342, 409887, 410371, 410722, 411753.
(Library) - The gs_text_enum_common structure has a new imaging_dev field which is used by the bbox device to intercept low-level drawing operations when drawing text. - There is a new pdf14 device filter used for rendering PDF 1.4 documents.
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Ghostscript version 6.63, 31 March 2001