Launchpad has imported 1 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48260.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2012-04-03T17:00:25+00:00 Till Kamppeter wrote: For printing on Dabian and Ubuntu GTK/GNOME-based applications (like evince) generate PDF with Cairo and send it to CUPS. CUPS calls Ghostscript to convert this PDF into the printer's native data format. Problem is that the PDF generated by Cairo renders very slowly with Ghostscript in the printing-typical resolutions of 600dpi and more. This is caused by pointless use of transparency also if only opaque objects are drawn and in addition, the bounding boxes of the transparency groups are always the entire page. Since Ghostscript has to allocate memory to hold the raster data for each transparency the overall memory consumption can get multiples of the memory needed for th final page's raster data, making the machine swapping to the death. Can this be improved? PDF-based printing got standard now. Sample bug reports: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/968785 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/668800 (comment #36) http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692959 Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo/+bug/968785/comments/6 ** Changed in: cairo Status: Unknown => Confirmed ** Changed in: cairo Importance: Unknown => High ** Bug watch added: Ghostscript (AFPL) Bugzilla #692959 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692959 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968785 Title: ghostscript runs for indefinitely long period of time when called by foomatic-rip To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo/+bug/968785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
