Summary: | Ghostscript 8.63 includes bloated DLL | ||
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Product: | Ghostscript | Reporter: | goldart.geo |
Component: | General | Assignee: | Default assignee <ghostpdl-bugs> |
Status: | NOTIFIED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P4 | ||
Version: | 8.63 | ||
Hardware: | PC | ||
OS: | Windows 98 | ||
Customer: | Word Size: | --- | |
Attachments: | 1 |
Description
goldart.geo
2008-08-08 14:49:04 UTC
As the submitter guessed, the change in the DLL size is due to incorporating the Resource directory, including the rather large 'CMap' subdirectory and the 'Font' directory in the DLL/executable. This has been the standard for linux builds for some time and the binaries now distributed with Windows are now built with COMPILE_INITS=1 which does this. No external fonts or 'lib' files are now required for Ghostscript operation, nor is a -I to point to the 'lib' directory although this latter may be required for some '.bat' files that use specific '.ps' files from the 'lib' directory. A quick examination will show that the Windows distribution sizes has not changed much, since previously the Resource files were in the self extracting zip that was the .exe and now they are in the .dll within the zip/exe. gs862w32.exe 14M gs863w32.exe 10M In fact the sizes are now smaller. Created attachment 9070 [details]
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