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- Copyright (C) 1993 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved.
-
- This file is part of Ghostscript.
-
- Ghostscript is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility
- to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any
- particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer
- to the Ghostscript General Public License for full details.
-
- Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
- Ghostscript, but only under the conditions described in the Ghostscript
- General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been
- given to you along with Ghostscript so you can know your rights and
- responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other
- things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all
- copies.
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- This file, helpers.doc, is a note of thanks to all the people who
- have helped in the development of Ghostscript.
-
- For an overview of Ghostscript and a list of the documentation files, see
- README.
-
- Major contributors
- ------------------
-
- Special thanks are due to Russell Lang, for the gsview (Ghostview for
- Microsoft Windows) program and for contributing most of the code for
- the Microsoft Windows environment, and to Tim Theisen, for the
- Ghostview program for X Windows and for major contributions to the
- code for the X Windows environment.
-
- Other contributors
- ------------------
-
- Aladdin Enterprises would like to acknowledge and thank the following
- other people (in alphabetical order) who have contributed
- substantially to improving Ghostscript since its inception in 1986:
-
- Hitoshi Aida (for help with the SunView driver),
- William Bader (for several drivers and bug reports),
- Karl Berry and Kathy Hargreaves (for helping create the fonts
- distributed with Ghostscript),
- James W. Birdsall (for the IBM ProPrinter driver),
- Jan Bottorff (for help with the Microsoft Windows driver),
- George Cameron (for DeskJet 500C and 550C drivers),
- Maurice Castro (a collaborator of Russell Lang's),
- Phil Conrad (for originating the PPM utilities and the PCX and
- GIF drivers, and lots of bug reports),
- Michel Dagenais (for major help with the DeskJet driver),
- Gershon Elber (for improvements to the BGI driver),
- Mike Ferrara (for help with the LaserJet driver and HP-UX),
- Andy Fyfe (for the BJ200 driver modifications to the BJ10e driver),
- Tim Gallivan (for a port to the Atari ST),
- J Greely (for help with the PostScript-to-ASCII filter),
- Paul Haeberli (for the ideas behind better color selection
- and trapezoid fill algorithms),
- Karl Hakimian (for the Tek 4693d drivers),
- Richard Hesketh (for GSPreview),
- Thomas Hiller (for the Trident TVGA driver),
- Frans van Hoesel (for improvements to the DeskJet driver),
- Berthold K. P. Horn (for a better spot halftone screen),
- Earl Johnson (for the motivation for the ps2ascii utility),
- Alfred Kayser (for a DeskJet 500C driver and beta testing),
- Richard Keeney (for help with the SunView driver),
- Markku Koppinen (for a better circle-to-curve algorithm),
- Eleftherios Koutsofios (for help with the SunView driver),
- Ian MacPhedran (for a sixel driver),
- Jim Mayer (for help with the DeskJet and LaserJet drivers),
- Richard Mlynarik (for a nearly overwhelming volume of
- improvements and suggestions),
- Ulrich Mueller (for the LN03 driver),
- Daniel Newman (for major help with VMS and the CCITT Fax filters),
- Roque Donizete de Oliveira (for testing and debugging,
- and a 'man' page),
- Marc Paquette (for the original PaintJet driver),
- Hal Peterson (for major help with BDF fonts),
- Tom Quinn (for the Canon LBP-8II driver),
- Matthias Rabe (for work on an OS/2 port),
- Jerry Roylance (for help with statusdict),
- Dave St. Clair (for the color Epson/Fujitsu driver),
- Jan Sanislo (for two subtle but vital fixes),
- Clemens Schrimpe (for help with accented characters),
- Mike Smolenski (for the Sony drivers),
- Snoopy (for major help with Hershey fonts, and many other
- contributions),
- Karsten Spang (for the Tektronix 4695/4696 driver),
- Andreas Stolcke (for help with the SunView driver),
- Christoph Strozyk (for getting the URW fonts made available),
- Michael Sweet (for help with the high-density Epson driver),
- Gregg Townsend (for the low-resolution dithering algorithm),
- Christian Tschudin (for fixes to the virtual memory package,
- and for the original BubbleJet driver),
- Jos Vos (for the original PBM/PGM/PPM driver, and for much
- beta testing),
- Allan Wax (for the AT&T 6300 modification to the BGI driver),
- David Wexelblat (for the high-resolution 9-pin Epson driver),
- Elizabeth Zwicky (for some very challenging examples).
-
- The following people have also helped out by beta testing, by
- reporting bugs and/or fixes, or in other ways:
-
- Vikas Aggarwal, Michael Almond,
- Abramo Bagnara, Malcolm Bennett, David Brooks,
- Jim Collins,
- Peter da Silva, Art Dederick, Paul DuBois,
- Toerless Eckert,
- Bernhard Fabricius, Mark Friedman, Richard Foulk,
- Glenn Geers, Dave Goldblatt, Ben Goren, Dirk Grunwald,
- Lars Haakedal, Adam Hammer, George Hartzell, Mike Hoffmann,
- Charles Hulse,
- Brad Jones, Terry Jones,
- David Keppel,
- Anthony Lee, John Lundin Jr., Lee McLoughlin,
- Stergios Marinopoulos, Herb Martin, David Maynard,
- Doug McDonald, Rich Murphey,
- Russ Nelson,
- Peter Phillips,
- Mark Rawling, Philippe Robert, Tomas Rokicki, Wolfgang Rupprecht,
- Bill Schelter, Bakul Shah,
- Erik Talvola, Kjetil Bernhard Thomassen,
- Amanda Walker, Peter Wan, John L. Wehle, Carsten Wiethoff,
- Carl Witty,
- Frank Yellin,
- Jamie Zawinski.
-
- If your name appears on the above list and I've forgotten a
- particular contribution you made, or if it doesn't appear at all,
- please forgive me: just remind me, and you will be properly
- acknowledged in the next release.
-