[cups.general] [SOLVED] Should the CUPS Raster output deviceofGhostscript output compressed or uncompressed Raster data?

[Michael Sweet]

Note that neither cgpdftoraster (Mac) or imagetoraster support this yet...  Bugs would be appreciated:

    http://www.cups.org/str.php
    http://bugreport.apple.com

On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:52 AM, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> I have solved the problem now. I have added optional compression to the 
> CUPS Raster output device of Ghostscript now (in the SVN repository of 
> Ghostscript, rev 11508, will get into GS 9.00 to be released end of 
> August). If the line
> 
> *cupsRasterVersion: 2
> 
> is added to the PPD file, the CUPS Raster output will be compressed 
> (version 2). Default is uncompressed (version 3) for backward 
> compatibility. CUPS Raster version 1 is not supported.
> 
> The change is implemented completely inside the CUPS Raster output 
> device code of Ghostscript, so it works both with pstoraster and 
> PostScript input and with pdftoraster and PDF input.
> 
> See
> 
> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689885
> 
>    Till
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair