On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:49AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:41 +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
The version 8.62 has an completly rewritten pdfwrite API which is much more compatible with the PDF standard. Beside this it can handle much more PostScript code fid out there. This cause the longer compilation time.
A 400% increase for a small (135KB) file and from 4 seconds to hours for a 3MB file?
I'm only the maintainer of ghostscript *not* one of the developers nor authors.
This has nothing todo with omni o r any other device interface, it is simply the device pdfwrite its self. Beside this check if you're uptodate with ghostscript as there was some fixes not only security fixes. Last changelog entry is Wed May 13 17:26:49 CEST 2009 - werner@suse.de - Complete patch for CVE-2009-0792 (bnc#491897)
I'm up to date as far as the openSUSE repository is concerned. Should I try to pull the ghostscript package from Factory?
this will make no difference IMHO
if this version hangs on your file you may use strace -p `pidof gs` to see what happens here.
Just a constant stream of - ... write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220 \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60 brk(0xf959000) = 0xf959000 brk(0xf949000) = 0xf949000 brk(0xf948000) = 0xf948000 brk(0xf96f000) = 0xf96f000 write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220 \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60 brk(0xf95f000) = 0xf95f000 brk(0xf94f000) = 0xf94f000 brk(0xf94e000) = 0xf94e000 brk(0xf975000) = 0xf975000 write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220 \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60 brk(0xf965000) = 0xf965000 brk(0xf955000) = 0xf955000 brk(0xf954000) = 0xf954000 brk(0xf975000) = 0xf975000 write(6, "x\234330P0PH1\340*\3442\4\261\f\24\240Tr\256\202S\10\227~\220 \5P\300@"..., 60) = 60 ...
looks like gs is writing out the resulting pdf and this seems to take some time ... btw: how fast is your disk. Try out to use /dev/null as OutputFile, does this go faster? You may also replace -c .setpdfwrite with -dCompressFonts=true -dMaxInlineImageSize=0 -c '.setpdfwrite 300000000 setvmthreshold' if you have enough memory available in your system. You may have a look into w3m -T text/html -dump /usr/share/ghostscript/8.62/doc/Ps2pdf.htm | less -S w3m -T text/html -dump /usr/share/ghostscript/8.62/doc/Use.htm | less -S '+/^Improving performance' Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org