Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp> writes:
> 
> I've found the (possibly) newest VFlib patch for AFPL Ghostscript
> 7.00.  The patch is included in Kakuto-san's pTeX Win32 distribution.
> 
>   http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/text/TeX/ptex-win32/WEB2C7.3/gs700-j-vlib.zip
> 
> (Most files are Win32 binaries.)

I'm currently grabbing what appears to be the same file from:

	ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/tex/ptex-win32/WEB2C7.3/gs700-j-vlib.zip

but I will grab from your site and double-check that the files are
identical.

> As I already said, GS-CJK is doing really a good job, but it's still
> experimental and not good for Pkgsrc, I think.  So this Kakuto-san's
> patch (Tanaka-san's patch for 7.00) are to be used as far.

Yes, the project looks nice, but doesn't seem production-ready, so I
think we'll be sticking with AFPL/GPL ghostscript.  Since the VFlib
patches seem to exist only for AFPL Ghostscript 7.00, and not for GNU
Ghostscript 6.51, I will be updating pkgsrc ghostscript to 7.00 so as
not to lose any functionality, despite the more restrictive license.

> (I'm very sorry that I can't make the Pkgsrc, but AFPL Ghostscript's
>  build process is so messy...)

Yes, quite messy indeed.  I'll be working on the ghostscript update
this weekend, so if anyone knows of specific 3rd-party printer drivers
they'd prefer to see incorporated into our pkgsrc ghostscript, please
speak up now and I'll try my best.

	Cheers,

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/