We were not aware of this, most probably because in most cases it does not influence the result, a correct printout.
Most probably this is actually a Ghostscript bug so I recommend to report it to Ghostscript upstream, https://bugs.ghostscript.com/. Please include your Ghostscript command line and the sample PDF file. Put a link to your upstream bug report here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ghostscript in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1818593 Title: PS data generated on Ubuntu 16.04 is larger than on Ubuntu 14.04 Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: OS: Ubuntu 16.04LTS Ghostscript Version: 9.18 Generated file size: 1280KB OS: Ubuntu 14.04LTS Ghostscript Version: 9.10 Generated file size: 556KB We found a problem about Ghostscript: When converting from PDF file to PS data using the Ghostscript command, the PS data generated by Ghostscript 9.18 on Ubuntu 16.04LTS is twice as large as the PS data generated by Ghostscript 9.10 on Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Due to the increase in size, the printing speed of PCL6 driver will be severe slow down on Ubuntu 16.04LTS. The following is the Ghostscript command which we use for converting from PDF file to PS data: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOUTPUTFILE={out_ps_file_path} -dLanguageLevel=3 -r600 -dCompressFonts=false -dNoT3CCITT -dNOINTERPOLATE -f sample.pdf We'd like you to answer the following questions. 1. Is it Ghostscript's specification or bug? 2. If it is a bug, do you have any plan to fix it? 3. Is there any workaround? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/1818593/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
