[Bug 1476705] Re: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-22 Thread cliddell
Bruno, To be honest, I don't know what differs between the two tools, as they both come from Cairo, I assumed that pdftops was just a small wrapper around the same code as pdftocairo but with the options pre-set for PS output. I'm a Ghostscript developer, so I can't really answer specifics about

[Bug 1476705] Re: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-22 Thread cliddell
The problem, I suspect, is the way Cairo rights PDF files (the gmap.pdf file you attached above was created by Cairo). The Cairo *always* writes the page contents into one or more PDF transparency groups - even when all the contents are really opaque. The issue is that, due to the way PDF works

[Bug 1042111] Re: gs can't render some fonts. Example was created with 10.04

2012-09-26 Thread cliddell
It seems that the fix for this was: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=8031fd57 For me (using git cherry-pick) the patch applies cleanly to the 9.05 sources. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to