[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 41374] [patch] pdftops 0.18.0 makes some files twice as large

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41374

--- Comment #5 from William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> 2011-09-30 19:07:32 PDT ---
>Instead the images are output twice.

That explains why some of my test files were almost exactly twice as large.

>I can't see any easy way to fix this without removing the optimization

Would it be worth making it a command line option?

I am archiving the generated PS files, so I need them as small as possible.
Someone generating PS files inside a print queue might want them as easy to
interpret as possible even if that made them larger.
It would be similar to size vs. speed optimization options in compilers.


I have some low-end and old printers that often can't print postscript files. 
When I have to print a complicated page, I usually have better luck using gs to
send pcl.


Can you attach your pdf file that doesn't print?
I have a way to fix the text positioning in
http://williambader.com/output-pdftopsbug.pdf and I am curious if it works for
your file.
It is based on PSOutputDev::drawString() in xpdf-3.03.

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