The source PDF file contains an image. In the resulting PS file, the image is not converted to a PostScript "colorimage" as expected, but painted in a very strange, and inefficient way (see below). The resulting PS file is extremely huge. It looks like in the PS file, each image pixel is drawn separately with the "fill" operator, is it? ... %%Page: 1 1 %%BeginPageSetup GS_pswrite_2_0_1001 begin 511 383 null setpagesize /pagesave save store 197 dict begin 0.1 0.1 scale %%EndPageSetup gsave mark 100 145 212 rG 310 3829 5 1 rf 102 146 212 rG 315 3829 9 1 rf 103 146 214 rG 324 3829 4 1 rf 106 145 212 rG 328 3829 9 1 rf 107 146 213 rG 337 3829 9 1 rf 108 149 214 rG 346 3829 10 1 rf 107 148 214 rG 356 3829 9 1 rf 103 149 216 rG 365 3829 4 1 rf 104 147 215 rG 369 3829 5 1 rf 105 146 215 rG 374 3829 2 1 rf 106 145 215 rG 376 3829 2 1 rf 108 146 217 rG 378 3829 5 1 rf 108 147 215 rG 383 3829 2 1 rf 109 148 216 rG 385 3829 9 1 rf 108 147 215 rG 394 3829 3 1 rf 107 144 214 rG 397 3829 2 1 rf ...
Created attachment 890 [details] PDF file fed into pdf2ps
We plan to fix this and other problems in the rewrite to maek pswrite a high level device, similar to pdfwrite. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 686919 ***