Ghostscript new (minor) version

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Mon May 20 22:35:41 CEST 2024


    This seems to imply it's only the combination of setpagedevice and
    /OutputDevice which is restricted.
    [...]
    https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Language.html#device-operators
    <device> setdevice -

Ah. The setdevice operator is what I was missing. Ok, grep -r in
texmf-dist for /OutputDevice|setdevice shows no active uses. That's not
proof there won't be problems, but at least it's a good sign. I guess
we'll see what happens when that version of gs is released ... --thanks, karl.


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