<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - PDF print output of Cairo has unneeded transparency with badly defined bounding boxes" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48260#c4">Comment # 4</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - PDF print output of Cairo has unneeded transparency with badly defined bounding boxes" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48260">bug 48260</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:till.kamppeter@gmail.com" title="Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>"> Till Kamppeter</a> <pre>To make printing also working well on mobile and generally low-performance devices it gets very important to completely do away with transparency in PDF output, at least if the document does not actually contain any transparent graphical elements. We should perhaps even make one output mode optimized for printing with no transparency at all. This would allow fast print rendering, especially also on mobile. Ghostscript developers suggest PDF/X-1 output here. Another mode could use transparency only where it is actually needed, for getting small, efficient PDF files for archiving and web download. We should raise priority for this as slow printing is a very common problem under Linux (and mostly caused by the transparency abuse in Cairo output) and Linux gets more and more used on mobile battery-driven devices.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>