From 12e22e984011d2c496906e06f8557491829881fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Szabo Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 05:32:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: fixed Ghostscript version --- README.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index b430870..dd5ff7d 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ a computer with Intel processor), the easiest way to try pdfsizeopt is borrowing a friend's computer with Linux or Windows, or renting a Linux VM in the cloud. The reason why it's difficult to run pdfsizeopt on your system is because pdfsizeopt has some required dependencies, some of them are old -versions (e.g. Python 2.4--2.7, Ghostscript 8.50), so you'll have to compile +versions (e.g. Python 2.4--2.7, Ghostscript 9.05), so you'll have to compile the right versions of the dependencies first, which may take several hours and lots of frustrating trial-and-error even for experienced hackers. @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ them from source. Installation instructions and usage on generic Unix ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Doing this is increasingly hard in 2023, because pdfsizeopt needs Python -2.4--2.7 and Ghostscript 8.50, both very old, and thus hard to install to a +2.4--2.7 and Ghostscript 9.05, both very old, and thus hard to install to a modern system. There is no installer, you need to run some commands in the command line @@ -344,9 +344,9 @@ Dependencies: * Python (command: python). Version 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 work (3.x doesn't work). -* Ghostscript (command: gs): Version 8.50 is known to work, and some early - 9.x versions also work. The most recent versions don't work, especially - for font optimization. +* Ghostscript (command: gs): Version 9.05 is recommended, 8.50 should also + work, and some early 9.x versions such as 9.14.1 also work. The most + recent versions don't work, especially for font optimization. * jbig2 (command: jbig2): Install from source: https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt-jbig2 If you are unable to install, use pdfsizeopt --use-jbig2=no .