[cups.general] ESP gs produces large PCL files

[Jerome Alet]

Hi again,

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:22:46PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I just created some PCL files using several drivers with
>     ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6 (2003-02-05)
>     hpijs 1.4.1
> and one PCL file using the Windows 98SE driver
>     HP LaserJet 1100 PCL 5e-Treiber Version 1.00.5.029

this is a driver which generates PCL5 code.

> -rw-r--r--    1 felix    users         14M Sep  6 13:16 overview.lj5gray.pcl
> -rw-r--r--    1 felix    users        5.5M Sep  6 13:09 overview.lj5mono.pcl

I don't know for the other ones, but these two are PCLXL (aka PCL6) files.

PCL6 and PCL5 are completely different beasts, so comparing them
is like comparing apples and oranges.

Also some gs drivers may output large bitmaps instead of vectorial
information, and this consumes disk space.

Best is to check what is in the files directly using a binary editor 
like hexcurse for example 

hoping this helps

Jerome Alet