[bug-pcl] reducing the size Ghostpcl generated PDFs

[Stefan Kemper]

Jon,

You might want to try:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/home/jon/smaller.pdf bigger.pdf

looking at the gs/doc/Ps2pdf.htm there are distiller parameters that you
can use to shrink the output pdf even more.

Sorry these parameters are not accessible from pcl6 at this time.  

Regards,

Stefan 

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 02:22, Jonathan Hurley wrote:
> 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
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