[gs-devel] Massive increase of filesize after merging two PDFs

[Igor V. Melichev]

Marc,

Please try gs 8.62.available from http://ghostscript.com/releases/ .

Igor.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Muehlfeld" <Marc.Muehlfeld at web.de>
To: <gs-devel at ghostscript.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:29 AM
Subject: [gs-devel] Massive increase of filesize after merging two PDFs


>
> Hi,
>
> I use gs to merge two 85 Kb PDFs (One Picture + Text). But the output file
> is 560 Kb. I use the following command:
>
> gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=output-test.pdf -dBATCH
> file1.pdf file2.pdf
>
> I also found a difference between the documents. If i copy/paste text from
> the original file with my Adobe Reader to Notepad, I get the text. If I do
> this with the merged file, it just get hieroglyphs. Even if I just have 
> one
> file (-dBATCH file1.pdf) the output is much much bigger than the input.
>
> The big problem is, that a job will merge hundred of files every day and 
> im
> wasting space and bandwidth. Also the user can't copy/paste the text any
> more.
>
> Any idea what went wrong?
>
> I tried it with GNU gs 7.05 on RHEL and GNU gs 8.15 on openSUSE 10.3.
>
>
> Regards
> Marc
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