dvisvgm needs rebuild to support ghostscript 10
Martin Gieseking
martin.gieseking at uos.de
Wed Nov 30 23:24:05 CET 2022
Hi,
besides the already mentioned issues with GS 10.0, the upcoming GS 10.1
will completely break dvisvgm's PDF functionality because Artifex is
finally going to remove the old PostScript-based PDF interpreter from
GS. Unfortunately, the new C-based one doesn't allow for overriding PS
operators which is required for dvisvgm to interact with the interpreter
during the conversion process.
In order to keep the PDF functionality available, I've added an
alternative PDF handler that uses mutool (part of mupdf) as a helper
utility. As long as a GS version < 10.1 is present, the current
mechanism is used, though. The new additions will be part of dvisvgm 3.
It also comes with a newly implemented font writer module replacing the
outdated, bundled FontForge library.
Regards,
Martin
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