From: Stefan A. Muehlenweg (muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de)
Date: 06/12/93 

From: muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
Subject: Re: [Q] ghostscript color dithering
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 22:52:48 GMT

jason@twain.ucs.umass.edu (jason bastek) writes:

>hello,

>i have noticed that, on my color display, ghostscript 'dithers' the
>colors rather than producing solid colors. i have seen gs run on a
>mac and on windows, and in both places the colors were solid, also,
>both were 8 bit displays, as is mine.

install ghostscript 2.6.1 (available since beginning of june '93)
and it will use full solid colors with X11. gs2.5.2 did use dithering.
BTW, the driver for HP Deskjet 550C included in 2.6.1 is very nice.

Tschuess, Stefan 

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