[bug-pcl] pcl6 looping when writing pdf

[Stefan Kemper]

Hi Andreas,

This generates greater than 2gig of temporary raster which will
prevent pdfwrite from completing.

If you can change the input pcl not jumping around the page painting a
scanline here and there will help.  Or you can go the convert to image
and wrap in pdf route.  But we will probably never do a good job a
putting the pieces of raster back together into coherent images that
will process well as high level images.

Best regards,
Stefan

On 4/13/06, Stefan Kemper <stefan.kemper at artifex.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> How long did you let the process run?  The test file uses scanline
> raster with old raster commands that we send down as individual images
> these create great pain for the high level devices like pswrite and
> pdfwrite that try to retain these as individual images, the low level
> device just paint them at device resolution.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>
> On 4/13/06, Andreas Schrell <as at schrell.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > attached is a pcl file which makes pcl6 (v1.41) loop when writing a pdf file.
> > Everything works, when using -sDEVICE=x11. Tested with pswrite also. It
> > outputs the first page and loops then. Perhaps it has something to do with the
> > overlay?
> >
> > Feel free to ask for further information.
> >
> > tested on SuSE Linux and Debian Sarge.
> > gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
> >
> > And in gs/src there are numerous calls of return_error with only one argument,
> > while it is defined with two arguments in gs/src/gserror.h ???
> >
> > Thank you
> > Andreas
> >
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