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Many people have contributed to the development of Ghostscript.
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we wish to acknowledge and thank the following people (in
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alphabetical order) who have contributed substantially to improving
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Ghostscript since its inception in 1986:
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<dl>
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<dt>Hitoshi Aida
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<dd>for help with the SunView driver
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<dt>Pierre Arnaud
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<dd>for bug reports and fixes
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<dt>Juan Manuel Acosta
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<dd>for LN03+ driver and fixes of arc and circle rendering on SunOS
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<dt>William Bader
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<dd>for several drivers and bug reports
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<dt>Alan Barclay
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<dd>for the RGB TIFF drivers
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<dt>Nelson H. F. Beebe
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<dd>for testing on a wide variety of Unix architectures, and for
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the multi-architecture makefile
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<dt>Karl Berry and Kathy Hargreaves
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<dd>for helping create the fonts originally distributed with
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Ghostscript
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<dt>James W. Birdsall
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<dd>for the IBM ProPrinter driver
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<dt>Andrew Birrell
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<dd>for a challenging application
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<dt>Jan Bottorff
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<dd>for help with the Microsoft Windows driver
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<dt>Tom Brosnan
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<dd>for the Desqview/X port
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<dt>Philip Brown
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<dd>for the LaserJet IIID duplex additions
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<dt>Tobias Burnus
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<dd>for many challenging bug reports
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<dt>George Cameron
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<dd>for DeskJet 500C and 550C drivers
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<dt>Maurice Castro
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<dd>a collaborator of Russell Lang's
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<dt>Jeff Chua
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<dd>for the idea and first implementation of
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<b><tt>ReopenPerPage</tt></b>
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<dt>Phil Conrad
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<dd>for originating the PPM utilities and the PCX and GIF drivers,
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and lots of bug reports
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<dt>Michel Dagenais
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<dd>for major help with the DeskJet driver
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<dt>John Desrosiers
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<dd>for the final work on the Microsoft Visual C++ makefiles,
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and for enhancements to the memory manager
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<dt>Jim Dunham
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<dd>for the OpenVMS makefile
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<dt>Gershon Elber
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<dd>for improvements to the BGI driver
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<dt>Fritz Elfert
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<dd>for the Unix file enumeration routine
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<dt>George Ferguson
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<dd>for some added man pages
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<dt>Mike Ferrara
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<dd>for help with the LaserJet driver and HP-UX
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<dt>Andy Fyfe
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<dd>for the BJ200 driver modifications to the BJ10e driver, and for
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the 3B1 driver
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<dt>Tim Gallivan
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<dd>for a port to the Atari ST
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<dt>J. Greely
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<dd>for help with the PostScript-to-ASCII filter
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<dt>Gintautas Grigelionis
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<dd>for a set of XBM/XPM icons
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<dt>Paul Haeberli
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<dd>for the ideas behind better color selection and trapezoid fill
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algorithms
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<dt>Karl Hakimian
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<dd>for the Tek 4693d drivers
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<dt>Richard Hesketh
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<dd>for GSPreview
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<dt>Gunther Hess
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<dd>for the unified inkjet printer driver
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<dt>Thomas Hiller
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<dd>for the Trident TVGA driver
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<dt>Frans van Hoesel
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<dd>for improvements to the DeskJet driver
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<dt>Berthold K. P. Horn
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<dd>for a better spot halftone screen
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<dt>B. Jackowski and GUST (the Polish TeX users group)
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<dd>for improvements to the TrueType font reader, and for the
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<b><tt>tiff2ps</tt></b> and <b><tt>ttf2pf</tt></b> utilities
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<dt>Jouk Jansen
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<dd>for motivating, testing, and providing some of the script
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file for the MMK/MMS build procedure
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<dt>Earl Johnson
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<dd>for the motivation for the <b><tt>ps2ascii</tt></b> utility
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<dt>Ray Johnston
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<dd>for a first draft of FAKEFONTS and EPSF recognition, and for
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many small bug fixes
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<dt>Larry Jones
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<dd>for simplifying and improving the portability of the pthreads
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interface code
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<dt>Pete Kaiser
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<dd>for beta testing, several versions of the OSF/1 font map, and
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an HTML version of the documentation
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<dt>Norio Katayama
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<dd>for the first implementation of composite fonts, and for
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testing and helping debug the later implementation
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<dt>Alfred Kayser
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<dd>for a DeskJet 500C driver and beta testing
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<dt>Richard Keeney
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<dd>for help with the SunView driver
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<dt>Markku Koppinen
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<dd>for a better circle-to-curve algorithm
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<dt>Eleftherios Koutsofios
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<dd>for help with the SunView driver
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<dt>Tom Lane
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<dd>for major help with adapting and integrating the IJG code
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<dt>Sam Leffler
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<dd>for the original TIFF G3 driver, and for finding some subtle
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bugs in the CCITTFaxEncode filter
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<dt>Jonathan Luckey
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<dd>for the high-resolution Imagewriter drivers
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<dt>Ken Lunde
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<dd>for providing pointers to freely available CJKV font-related
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resource
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<dt>Ian MacPhedran
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<dd>for a sixel driver
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<dt>Jim Mayer
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<dd>for help with the DeskJet and LaserJet drivers
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<dt>Paul McJones
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<dd>for help in identifying a variety of bugs
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<dt>William L. Menninger
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<dd>for a version of the PC display state save/restore code
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<dt>Richard Mlynarik
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<dd>for a nearly overwhelming volume of improvements and
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suggestions
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<dt>Ulrich Mueller
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<dd>for the LN03 driver
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<dt>Daniel Newman
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<dd>for major help with VMS and the CCITTFax filters
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<dt>Bjorn S. Nilsson
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<dd>for major help with VMS, including many updates of the DCL
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build scripts and creating the VMS help file
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<dt>Roque Donizete de Oliveira
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<dd>for testing and debugging, and a "man" page
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<dt>Gerbert Orasche
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<dd>for some minor bug fixes
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<dt>Marc Paquette
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<dd>for the original PaintJet driver
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<dt>Hal Peterson
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<dd>for major help with BDF fonts
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<dt>Andy Piper
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<dd>for the first draft of the WindowID feature
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<dt>Martin Pirker
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<dd>for fixing two major problems with TrueType fonts
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<dt>Tom Quinn
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<dd>for the Canon LBP-8II driver
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<dt>Matthias Rabe
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<dd>for work on an OS/2 port
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<dt>Jerry Roylance
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<dd>for help with statusdict
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<dt>Dave St. Clair
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<dd>for the color Epson/Fujitsu driver
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<dt>Jan Sanislo
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<dd>for two subtle but vital fixes
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<dt>Clemens Schrimpe
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<dd>for help with accented characters
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<dt>Scott Schwartz
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<dd>for improvements to <b><tt>gslp.ps</tt></b>
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<dt>Mike Smolenski
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<dd>for the Sony drivers
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<dt>Snoopy
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<dd>for major help with Hershey fonts, and many other contributions
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<dt>Karsten Spang
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<dd>for the Tektronix 4695/4696 driver
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<dt>Andreas Stolcke
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<dd>for help with the SunView driver
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<dt>Hans-Gerd Straeter
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<dd>for finding many obscure bugs
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<dt>Christoph Strozyk
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<dd>for getting the URW fonts made available
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<dt>Alexey Subbotin
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<dd>for contributing an interface to GNU readline, and for the
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rewritten implementation of ==
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<dt>Michael Sweet
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<dd>for help with the high-density Epson driver
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<dt>Guenther Thomsen
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<dd>for the mid-density Epson driver
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<dt>Gregg Townsend
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<dd>for the low-resolution dithering algorithm
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<dt>Christian Tschudin
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<dd>for fixes to the virtual memory package, and for the original
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BubbleJet driver
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<dt>Stephen Turnbull
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<dd>for help with the DesqView/X port
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<dt>Jos Vos
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<dd>for the original PBM/PGM/PPM driver, and for much beta testing
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<dt>Renze de Waal
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<dd>for an improvement to the "<b><tt>SAFER</tt></b>" feature
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<dt>Allan Wax
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<dd>for the AT&T 6300 modification to the BGI driver
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<dt>Mark Wedel
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<dd>for the Apple DMP driver
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<dt>David Wexelblat
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<dd>for the high-resolution 9-pin Epson driver
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<dt>George N. White III
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<dd>for testing the PDF writer and contributing documentation
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<dt>Elizabeth Zwicky
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<dd>for some very challenging examples
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The following people have also helped out by beta testing, by reporting
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Vikas Aggarwal, Michael Almond,
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Abramo Bagnara, Malcolm Bennett, David Brooks,
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Alex Cherepanov, Jim Collins,
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Peter da Silva, Art Dederick, Paul DuBois,
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Toerless Eckert,
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Bernhard Fabricius, Mark Friedman, Richard Foulk,
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Glenn Geers, Dave Goldblatt, Ben Goren, Dirk Grunwald,
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Lars Haakedal, Howard B. Halstead, Adam Hammer, George Hartzell, Mike Hoffmann, Charles Hulse,
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Brad Jones, Terry Jones,
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David Keppel,
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Anthony Lee, Marty Leisner, John Lundin Jr., Lee McLoughlin,
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Stergios Marinopoulos, Herb Martin, David Mathog, David Maynard, Doug McDonald, Rich Murphey,
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Russ Nelson,
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Peter Phillips,
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Mark Rawling, Philippe Robert, Tomas Rokicki, Wolfgang Rupprecht,
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Bill Schelter, Larry Schwimmer, Bakul Shah,
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Erik Talvola, Henrik Theiling, Mark A. Thomas, Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen,
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Amanda Walker, Peter Wan, John L. Wehle, Carsten Wiethoff, Carl Witty,
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Frank Yellin,
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Jamie Zawinski
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If your name appears on the above list and we've omitted a particular
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contribution you made, or if we've accidentally overlooked you entirely,
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please forgive us: just let us know at <a href="mailto:raph@artofcode.com">raph@artofcode.com</a>, and you will be
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properly acknowledged in the next release.
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This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or
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This software is distributed under license and may not be copied,
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of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution.
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For more information about licensing, please refer to
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http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on
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commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or
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contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110,
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San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861.
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