[bug-pcl] pcl6 looping when writing pdf

[Andreas Schrell]

Hi Stefan,

thanks for your Info. I am using Ghostpcl sometimes for previewing customer
data like in this one.

But why is it 2GB temporary raster when we are in A4 and 600dpi. Does every
scanline generate a complete page instead ov overlaying the data?

Andreas


> 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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