Attached is a PDF, 5981-9354EN.pdf, which seems to be a otherwise normal PDF. When converted to postscript, this file explodes to almost a gigabyte. However, when I remove -dUseCIEColor from the commandline, a normal 33MB PS file results. The command I ran to create the file is: /c/gs/gs8.14/bin/gswin32c -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=out.ps -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dUseCIEColor -dAutoRotatePages=/None' 5981-9354EN.pdf I've looked at the PDF and the resulting PS and the problem seems to be related to colorspaces (particularly when removing -dUseCIEColor fixes the problem, albeit with skewed colorspaces). About 80% of the postscript is giant blocks of code that looks like: 12 19 13 rG 398 7737 2 3 rf I poked around the PS header and I think this basically says "set the color, then write some pixels". If the high-level CIE colorspace in the PDF could not be encoded in postscript, I would expect something like this. But a 100-fold increase in file size? I realize the postscript device has no high-level colorspace handling yet...is that the source of this problem? Is there some other way to avoid making such expensive redundancies?
Created attachment 572 [details] 8.5MB, 8-page PDF
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 686919 ***
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