[bug-pcl] PDF files made with GhostPCL much larger than ones made with Acro bat

[Stefan Kemper]

GhostPCL currently doesn't have a way to set distiller parameters, by
default we generate high resolution images.   

In the mean time you can run the resulting pdf through gs to generate a
smaller file.  



On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:57, David Brodbeck wrote:
> When I create PDF files from HPGL2 plotfiles, with GhostPCL or by printing
> them through GhostScript, they end up about four times the size of ones
> created with Adobe Acrobat 4.  PDFs of complex drawings also take much
> longer to render or print when I render them with Ghost* instead of Acrobat.
> Does anyone know why this is?  I've tinkered with various configuration
> parameters without any luck.  The resolution settings don't seem to matter,
> possibly because these are vector graphic files.
> 
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