Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 239491
printing to pdf appears to use no compression
Last modified: 2008-03-27 14:23:03 EDT
Description of problem: (I'm guessing as to the actual component here, so please move it to the appropriate component if I get it wrong) Printing to a pdf in gnome/Gtk based applications appear to use no compression. This is apparent when working with programs that outputs graphics. For example, I can use glabels to print cd labels to a pdf. In my case the resultant output.pdf is 128705488 bytes. I can then use pdftk to recompress the pdf and the output.pdf is then 412375. This is < 1% of the size of the original. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libgnomeprintui22-2.12.1-6 How reproducible: Always Additional info: Looking in the pdf files, I see: output1.pdf: /Filter [/ASCIIHexDecode ] output2.pdf (recompressed) /Filter /FlateDecode
This problem is inside of libgnomeprint22, which doesn't have implemented compression of PDFs. Marek
This feature is not implemented inside of libgnomeprint22 and we will not implement it. Regards Marek (note: try cups-pdf printer)