Fwd: [bug-gs] PS2PDF size problem with EPS files.

[Ray Johnston]

Adrian,

Artifex Software does watch this list since we are the ones that do
98% of the maintenance and development of Ghostscript. The primary
person assigned to respond to bug-gs has been out.

Please send us a file that results in the large PDF size. Quark has
some PS procedures that they use that often are not very portable.
In any case we can't analyze it without the file.

If you don't want the file distributed on the mailing list, them just
send it to me.

Note that you can also open a bug on http://bugs.ghostscript.com (our
Bugzilla based bug tracking) and can attach a file there and mark it
'private'.

Regards,
Ray Johnston
Artifex Software Inc.
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adrian moir wrote:

> 
> Hi,
>  I have not heard anything on the below e-mail I sent on the 17th of 
> October,
> Does anyone watch this mail list?
> Is there a better list to send it to?
> Is this a Big known issue that nobody will own up to?
> I would like an answer, if it can be fixed either way yes or no.
> If yes then how, if no then I'll look at something else.
> Thanks for your time.
> Adrian.
> 
> 
>> From: "adrian moir" <adrianmoir at hotmail.com>
>> To: bug-gs at ghostscript.com
>> Subject: [bug-gs] PS2PDF size problem with EPS files.
>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:12:37 +0100
>>
>> Hi,
>>   I'm currently testing GS 8.11 using PS2PDF running on RH Linux 8.0
>> I have installed ok and have setup severla queus via cups.
>> When I print a quark page with EPS's in I get very large PDF's out.
>> The odd thing is that some EPS's Downsample to 72dpi but some don't 
>> and remain
>> at 300dpi, Thus I Get a large PDF !
>>    I'm using the PS2PDF screen settings and converting to CMYK and 
>> embedding all fonts.
>> If I substitute the images for Tiffs the PDF file is considerably 
>> smaller.
>> I have also used Helios's OPI oiimaginfo program to interrogate the 
>> images, they all have the same information, i.e. Objects, 
>> image,plate,Icon etc.
>> I have also Played with the ColorImageFilter, ColorImageDepth and 
>> ColorImageDownsampleThreshold parameters, but to no avail. I have also 
>> looked at the ColorImageDict parameter but couldn't work out how to 
>> include the options.
>> Current line is as below.
>> gs -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK 
>> -dEmbedAllFonts=true file.in file.out
>>
>> I would greatly appriciate your input here, as Acrobat distiller would 
>> render the PS to about 600K instead of 29Mb that I get with GS.
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>     Adrian.
>>
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