[cups.general] RE: CUPS & Ghostscript

[v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com]

Hi !!!

First and foremost I must thank all of you for your guidance. Thank You.

me being a novice to Linux had no idea about this "strip" command. After I
used the strip command it looks soooooo small... (initial size of gs was
10.135 Mb and after it is stripped 1.488 Mb) 

This was quite helpful.

Have a nice weekend !!!


- S u d e e p    V
Unless you jump from the frying pan to the fire, all you get is a raw deal. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sweet [mailto:mike at easysw.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:39 PM
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: Re: [cups.general] RE: CUPS & Ghostscript


v.sudeep at exgate.tek.com wrote:
> oh !! Yes ofcourse ESP Ghostscript works perfectly well. (atleast I did
not
> have any problems). But it is extremely large. Inspite of all the obvious
> minimisations that could be done, I could bring it down to only
> approximately 11MB. I need the whole thing to be less than 3MB. That is
the
> reason for my needing to go for GNU Ghostscript. 
> 
> If there is some way that I could make ESP Ghostscript down to 3MB, I
would
> settle for ESP. 

Make sure you have disabled all of the extra drivers that are
included with ESP Ghostscript.  I just checked, and a stripped
binary for Linux Intel that has the config files compiled in
and only the CUPS and PCL-XL drivers is only 2.6MB, so it is
definitely doable (try running "strip" on your current executable
to see if that removes the extra, unnecessary symbol/debug info
that is normally included in the compiled executable.

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