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Notes that clients of ImageType 3 images are responsible for providing the
mask data before the pixel data.  (gsiparm3.h)

<h2><a name="5.37_Procedures"></a>Procedures</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The makefiles were missing a dependency of jconfig.h on arch.h.
With this fix, parallel builds (make -jN) work reliably.  (jpeg.mak)

<h2><a name="5.37_Utilities"></a>Utilities</h2>

Adds a utility for creating maps from CIDs to Unicode.  (unixinst.mak,
cid2code.ps)

<h2><a name="5.37_Drivers"></a>Drivers</h2>

Removes the %Fax% IODevice code, since it was only a skeleton and Adobe no
longer supports this facility.  (devs.mak, gdevpfax.c [deleted])

<h2><a name="5.37_Fonts"></a>Fonts</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- TrueType fonts whose first code wasn't 0 or 0xf000 didn't display
correctly.  (bug introduced in 5.36) (gs_ttf.ps)
	- CIDFontType 0 fonts didn't handle being redefined with another
name.  (gs_cidfn.ps)
	- CIDFontType 0 fonts could get local-into-global-store errors.
(gs_cidfn.ps)
	- PDF files couldn't use already-defined CMap resources.
(pdf_font.ps)
	- Out-of-range CIDs gave an error rather than using a notdef
character.  (gs_cidfn.ps)

<h2><a name="5.37_Interpreter"></a>Interpreter</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- CIDFontType 4 fonts weren't recognized as CID-keyed.  (zchar2.c,
zchar32.c, zfont32.c)
	- When recovering from an error in an operator procedure, the
interpreter didn't update the dictionary stack caches.  (interp.c)
	- startjob didn't reinitialize the stacks or VM space.  (gs_lev2.ps)
	- Encoding filters with a Predictor always caused an error.
(zfilter2.c)
	- currenttrapparams gave an error.  (gs_ll3.ps)
	- settrapparams had no effect, and left the dictionary on the stack.
(gs_ll3.ps)

Finishes implementing Type 32 fonts.  These fonts don't actually work
directly with the cache -- they store the bitmaps in a compressed form in an
ordinary Dictionary -- but they do behave the way they are specified.
(gs_typ32.ps, zchar32.c, zfont32.c)

Cleans up formatting and macros in a few more files.  (ccfont.h, icharout.h,
icstate.h, iutil.h, iutil2.h, ibnum.c, iccfont.c, iccinit0.c, ilocate.c,
isave.h, isave.c, iscannum.c, iutil.c, iutil2.c)

Removes or capitalizes a few more macros.  (zcontext.c, zcssepr.c,
zusparam.c)

<h2><a name="5.37_Interpreter_PDF"></a>Interpreter (PDF)</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- Color spaces with subsidiary spaces (Indexed, Separation, DeviceN)
sometimes didn't work properly, because they were translated to PostScript
structures more than once.  (pdf_draw.ps)
	- Type 3 fonts didn't rebind the resource context when executing the
CharProc procedure.  (pdf_font.ps)

<h2><a name="5.37_Streams"></a>Streams</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The CCITTFax decoder signaled an error if it saw an EOB with
EndOfBlock = false.  (According to e-mail from Adobe, EOBs should be
recognized even if EndOfBlock is false, even though the Red Book implies the
opposite.)  (scfd.c)

Cleans up macros and formatting in a few more files.  (slzwce.c, sfxfd.c,
sfxstdio.c)

<h2><a name="5.37_Library"></a>Library</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- Landscape color images usually didn't display.  (bug introduced in
5.32)  (gxicolor.c)
	- If gs_heap_free_object was called with ptr != 0 but bp = 0 (which
is an error), an invalid memory access would occur.  (gsmalloc.c)
	- The left side bearing was still being added in a second time for
the accent of a seac.  (bug probably introduced in 5.20)  (gxtype1.c)
	- An access error occurred when rendering the very last glyph of a
TrueType font with a 2-byte loca table.  (gstype42.c)
	- In the fast portrait case of monochrome images, a numerical error
sometimes produced a 1-bit-wide vertical stripe of an incorrect color at the
right edge of the image.  (gxifast.c)
	- ImageType 3 images with InterleaveType = 3 gave memory access
errors.  (gximage3.c)
	- Hit detection ignored any part of the aperture that had negative X
or Y coordinates.  (gdevhit.c)
	- The special color mapping device didn't copy all necessary values
back from its target.  (gxdevice.h, gdevbbox.c, gdevcmap.c, gsdevice.c)
	- The special color mapping device didn't handle ordinary (Type 1)
images correctly.  (gdevcmap.c)
	- CMYK halftones complemented both the color and the halftone level:
this produced the right number of pixels turned on (only for linear spot
functions or threshold arrays), but wasn't consistent with either the Adobe
specification or the user's intentions.  (gxcht.c)
	- The phase of mask Patterns wasn't always set correctly.
(gxp1fill.c)
	- The reader side of overlapped band devices was confused about its
open/closed status.  (gdevprna.c)

Renames Type 32 fonts from ft_bitmap to ft_CID_bitmap.  (gxftype.h)

Adds some more tracing for composite font decoding.  (gsfcmap.c)

Adds some more tracing for images.  (gxiinit.c)

Cleans up formatting and macros in a few more files.  (gxifast.c)

Moves the image*_type_data and image*_enum_procs_data definitions from
header files into more appropriate .c files.  (gsiparm2.h, gsiparm3.h,
gsiparm4.h, gxiparam.h, gxiinit.c, gximage2.c, gximage3.c, gximage4.c)

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<h1><a name="Version5.36"></a>Version 5.36 (beta) (8/25/98)</h1>

Another set of fixes.  The free-standing bbox device now produces convenient
%%BoundingBox messages.  This fileset also includes support for double-byte
TrueType fonts.

<h2><a name="5.36_Documentation"></a>Documentation</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- There was a minor spacing glitch in one man page.  (gs.1)
	- The page printed by align.ps didn't make it clear enough what to
do with the numbers it asks users to calculate.  (align.ps)
	- The sample code for adding gamma adjustment didn't work most of
the time.  (devices.txt)
	- The prolog produced by pswrite was completely uncommented.
(gdevps.c)
	- The documentation didn't note that the string block freelist
(sfree) is sorted in address order.  (gxalloc.h)

Notes that FirstBitLowOrder and LowBitFirst are equivalent.  (slzwx.h)

Notes a change in the FTP site of the free Kanji ("Wadalab") fonts.
(fonts.txt)

Adds a pointer to the freely available Unicode CMaps.  (fonts.txt)

Changes an obsolete e-mail address for Carsten Emde.  (contrib.mak)

<h2><a name="5.36_Utilities"></a>Utilities</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The viewgif utility sometimes left 1-scan-line gaps when rendering
interlaced images.  (viewgif.ps)

<h2><a name="5.36_Drivers"></a>Drivers</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- In the PDF writer, downsampled images were always written with 8
bits per sample, not the requested depth.  (gdevpsdi.c)
	- The 8-to-N-bit compression filter produced an extra byte at the
end of each row, and the N-to-8-bit expansion filter skipped an input byte
at the end of each row.  (gdevpsds.c)
	- In the PDF writer, the size of downsampled images for changing the
pixel width was set incorrectly, leading to inconsistent image parameters in
the output.  (gdevpsdi.c)
	- The subsampling filters didn't take a clear position about what to
do with excess input samples beyond a multiple of the reduction factor,
leading to inconsistent image parameters.  We added a Boolean to indicate
whether they should discard the samples or use them to create an additional
output sample.  (gdevpsds.h, gdevpsdi.c, gdevpsds.c)
	- The subsampling filters didn't provide the necessary set_defaults
procedures.  (gdevpsds.h, gdevpsds.c)
	- Because of a typo, pdfwrite and pswrite printed sequences of 4
decimal values wrong. (bug introduced during macro removal in 5.25)
(gdevpstr.c)

Makes the PS writer produce a %%HiResBoundingBox as well as a %%BoundingBox.
(gdevps.c)

<h2><a name="5.36_Platforms"></a>Platforms</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The Borland makefile didn't include the MT libraries.  We added a
MULTITHREAD option to this makefile.  (bcwin32.mak)
	- The MSVC makefile didn't include the MT switches in the right
place.  (msvccmd.mak)
	- 'make clean' in the Windows makefiles didn't clean up quite
enough.  (bcwin32.mak, msvc32.mak, msvccmd.mak)
	- The OS/2 makefile had gotten slightly out of date.  (os2.mak)

Cleans up some formatting.  (gp_win32.c)

<h2><a name="5.36_Fonts"></a>Fonts</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- Loading large TrueType fonts caused excessive garbage collection.
(gs_ttf.ps)

Finishes implementing support for turning double-byte TrueType fonts into
CIDFontType 2 fonts.  (gs_ttf.ps)

<h2><a name="5.36_Interpreter"></a>Interpreter</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- We thought the dictionary returned by currentuserparams should
always be allocated in local VM, but in fact the correct definition is that
it should be allocated in the current VM.  The simplest way to make this
work is for setuserparams to copy any string values into global VM.
(gs_lev2.ps)
	- 1-input stitching functions didn't allow k = 0.  (ifunc.h,
zfunc.c)
	- OtherSubrs defined in PostScript no longer worked.  (bug probably
introduced when we rewrote the Type 1 code in C) (zchar1.c)

Cleans up a few compiler warnings (missing empty 'default' cases, unused
variables).  (igc.c, iname.c)

Replaces some uses of RELOC_*_PTR (now deprecated) with RELOC_*_VAR.
(isave.c, iscan.c)

<h2><a name="5.36_Interpreter_PDF"></a>Interpreter (PDF)</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- Resources were re-created on each page, causing (sometimes a lot
of) unnecessary computation.  We implemented most of the machinery for
avoiding this, but not the mechanism for actually storing resources in
global VM.  (pdf_base.ps, pdf_main.ps)

Adds a little more debugging code.  (pdf_draw.ps)

<h2><a name="5.36_Streams"></a>Streams</h2>

Cleans up formatting in a few more files.  (sbtx.h, sfilter.h, slzwx.h,
spngpx.h, srlx.h, sstring.h, seexec.c, sfilter1.c, sfilter2.c, smtf.c,
spcxd.c, srld.c, srle.c)

Replaces a couple of #defines with duplicated (small) structures.  (sbtx.h,
sfilter.h, sfilter1.c, sfilter2.c)

Replaces all uses of RELOC_*_PTR (now deprecated) with RELOC_*_VAR.
(stream.c)

<h2><a name="5.36_Library"></a>Library</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- If a garbage collection occurred during a string show operation,
memory could be corrupted. (bug introduced in 5.24) (gstext.h, gstext.c)
	- A debugging check incorrectly indicated an error when
miter-checking lines with a 0 degree angle between them.  (gxstroke.c)
	- A structure created for bitmap/pixmap patterns was never freed.
(gspcolor.c)
	- Colored halftones didn't work with 24-bit devices.  (This case was
never actually used.)  (gxcht.c)
	- CIE colors didn't remap properly if the current color space was a
Pattern space.  (gscie.c)
	- In a non-garbage-collected environment, freeing a string in the
current chunk made an unnecessary test.  (Minor performance impact only.)
(gsnogc.c)

Cleans up a few compiler warnings (missing empty 'default' cases, unused
variables).  (gsht.c, gsht1.c, gshtscr.c, gsimage.c, gxacpath.c, gxclread.c,
gxicolor.c, gxshade4.c)

Replaces some uses of RELOC_*_PTR with RELOC_*_VAR.  (gsht1.c)

Changes the printed output of the free-standing bbox device so it produces
%%BoundingBox and %%HiResBoundingBox lines that can be dropped directly into
a DSC header.  (gdevbbox.c)

Speeds up the 4-bit case of copy_mono by about 30%.  (gdevm4.c)

Expands some macros and cleans up formatting, for easier reading and
debugging.  Speeds up the color halftone generation algorithm substantially
(up to 40%), by skipping the halftone computation for planes that are known
to be solid-color, and using copy_mono directly if only one plane is not
solid-color.  (gxcht.c)

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<h1><a name="Version5.35"></a>Version 5.35 (beta) (8/18/98)</h1>

More updates for 5.3x, specifically fixing problems with halftones on banded
CMYK devices.

<h2><a name="5.35_Documentation"></a>Documentation</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The URLs for the third-party libraries were out of date.
(make.txt, jpeg.mak, libpng.mak, zlib.mak)

<h2><a name="5.35_Drivers"></a>Drivers</h2>

Adds an x11gray4 device for help in debugging.  (devs.mak, gdevxalt.c)

<h2><a name="5.35_Fonts"></a>Fonts</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- TrueType fonts with more than 64K of data before or after the
glyfs caused an error.  (gs_ttf.ps)

<h2><a name="5.35_Interpreter"></a>Interpreter</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- The dictionary returned by currentuserparams was allocated in the
current VM rather than always in local VM.  (gs_lev2.ps)

<h2><a name="5.35_Interpreter_PDF"></a>Interpreter (PDF)</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- CID-keyed fonts caused an error, because their CDevProc was
incorrect.  (pdf_font.ps)

<h2><a name="5.35_Library"></a>Library</h2>

Fixes problems:
	- A comment was duplicated.  (gxht.h)
	- The main procedure of the command list reader was so large that it
couldn't be optimized by many compilers, and was very hard to read.
(gxclrast.c)
	- Banding devices using multi-screen halftones could get memory
access errors because they didn't clear the halftone caches when changing