[bug-pcl] reducing the size Ghostpcl generated PDFs

[Jonathan Hurley]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Henry Stiles wrote:

> Well the pcl2pdf output is wrong.  The gray pattern that appears in
> the background is intended to be a raster pattern.  pcl2pdf converts
> this pattern to a to a grayscale color.  We can look at doing
> something like this as an option but it will produce incorrect results
> in many cases.
>

Thanks for spotting that. Forgive my lack of understanding of the pdf file
format, but I am still wondering if there is any scope for reducing the
size of the Ghostpcl pdf. I notice that it can be compressed 98% by gzip,
so it must contain a lot of redundancy.

Jon