Bug 52193 – PostScript -> PDF conversion problems

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description crusaderky 2004-05-27 08:50:07 UTC]

I have a 2 pages ps document composed of scanned images. I tried to convert it to PDF, both using kghostview's "print to PDF" both with "ps2pdf", but I get a 8,9Mb large file, while the source is 400kB.

[Comment 1 crusaderky 2004-05-27 08:51:07 UTC]

Created attachment 32146 [details]
the ps file

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-07-05 08:20:45 UTC]

there are a lot of images in that file, so i think it is quite possible to get about 9mb

[Comment 3 crusaderky 2004-07-05 08:35:05 UTC]

ehm.... HELLO? the original file is a few KB and I expect that the converted file is of a comparable size, too. That's what happens in all the other cases.
And I get a 9+ Mb also if I try to do "print to ps", which should be exactly the same format. I created that file from a PDF (with 300+ pages) using the "print to file" option of Acrobat Reader 5 (linux version). If I tried to do the same with KGhostview and KPDF, i got a 9+ Mb file.

[Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-07-12 01:18:33 UTC]

you could try ghostscript-afpl instead of ghostscript

[Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-08-04 09:23:55 UTC]

is there an improvement with ghotscript-afpl?

[Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 01:52:45 UTC]

please try if you get a smaller file with ghostscript-afpl

[Comment 7 crusaderky 2004-08-24 03:01:20 UTC]

Tested with ghostscript-afpl-8.14-r1 and it doesn't fix it.

[Comment 8 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-06-06 05:55:13 UTC]

same on debian here, so nothing we can fix, sorry