Comment 13 for bug 1476705
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| bruno (brunob) wrote Re: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops) | #13 |
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I join some files (appout and printout) to help debug the slow test page. This is with pdftocairo. I have confirmed that a direct pdftocairo conversion produces a file about the same size as the original, but 10 times smaller than pdftops. So again, pdftocairo is better.
Comparing to the first sample pdf (google maps), we can see here that even if pdftocairo itself is efficient, further processing inflates this file (printout 21 times bigger). This may explain why this test page prints slowly, even with pdftocairo.
Now, how can we reduce/eliminate this further processing? I mean, when the file is in PS format, it is ready to ship...