[cups.general] Should the CUPS Raster output device of Ghostscript output compressed or uncompressed Raster data?
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Jul 5 17:53:32 PDT 2010
Compressing raster data on-system has a serious performance impact, more than sending uncompressed data over the pipe.
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On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:20 AM, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the Ghostscript bug report
>
> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689885
>
> an engineer of a large-format printer manufacturer asks whether the CUPS
> Raster output device of Ghostscript should better output the compressed
> format 2 instead of the uncompressed format 3, to save resources when
> dealing with large format raster data.
>
> Why was the compressed format 2 replaced by the uncompressed format 3?
>
> Should a PPD extension be introduced to switch the Ghostscript output
> between version 2 or 3 (currently 3 is hard-coded)?
>
> Till
>
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