[cairo] generation of inefficient postscript?

Jeff Muizelaar jeff at infidigm.net
Sun Feb 10 18:54:19 PST 2008


On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:55:00PM -0500, Adam Goode wrote:
> It takes 3.9s to print from xpdf and about 7s from evince. Perhaps this
> is because xpdf prints as 1 bit and cairo expands to full RGB? Still, an
> amazing improvement!

Poppler always gives cairo RGB24 data. Do the ps/pdf backends act
differently if given A1 data? If they do poppler could probably be
changed to give A1 data.

-Jeff


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