To make printing also working well on mobile and generally low- performance devices it gets very important to completely do away with transparency in PDF output, at least if the document does not actually contain any transparent graphical elements.
We should perhaps even make one output mode optimized for printing with no transparency at all. This would allow fast print rendering, especially also on mobile. Ghostscript developers suggest PDF/X-1 output here. Another mode could use transparency only where it is actually needed, for getting small, efficient PDF files for archiving and web download. We should raise priority for this as slow printing is a very common problem under Linux (and mostly caused by the transparency abuse in Cairo output) and Linux gets more and more used on mobile battery-driven devices. -- 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
