<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 23:18, William Bader <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:williambader@hotmail.com">williambader@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Recent versions of pdftops have a -r option to set the rasterization resolution.<br>Increasing the resolution can create large files, but you can match the resolution to the printer so no detail is lost.<br>
The default of 300 is good for viewing on-screen but a little low for printing.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I did see the resolution flag. While this does mitigate things to some extent, many PostScript printers benefit wildly from being sent vector instructions, especially for text.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><br></div>Another option is writing a comment so pdftops always creates a valid file, but applications can check for the comment and optionally process the pdf through another application.<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The issue is that rasterization is slow. I'd like to know <i>early</i> if it's going to be rasterized. Some PDFs can be close to a gigabyte, and having to run two passes can be rather intense. </div>
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