On Thursday 21 June 2001 16:00, Michael Goffioul wrote:
|   > Ok, I will try with GS for Windows or AI.
|   > Today I upgraded GS to GS 7.0 (AFPL), and problem still exist.
|   > I used one of my multi-typeface documents, and printed it from KWor=
d to
|   > PS file.
|   > Resulting PS file was 6.9MB.
|   > GS 7.0 runs significantly faster IMO, and *just after 2 minutes* I =
got
|   > following error message (running pure *GhostView*)
|
|   [snip]
|
|   > So, most likely with GS 5.5 I had to wait 10-15 minutes for similar
|   > message. (I was killing GV after 5 minutes)
|   >
|   > Do you think that Ghostscript for Windows will give different resul=
t?
|   > (and, therefor, it is Linux-specific problem?)
|
|   I'm afraid it won't make any difference. But who knows...And importin=
g
| the PS into AI may help a little bit.
|
|   Michael.

Ok, importing to Adobe Illustrator (AI) also failed.
AI has spent around 2 minutes readimg this (6.9MB) PS file. Finally, it=20
displayed couple of letters, and.. that's it.
Macromedia Freehand can't read pure PS file, it needs EPS. So, there is n=
o=20
testing alternatives left (except realworld Adobe Postscript printer)=20

Then I did the following:
- loaded source file exported from KWord, to Word 2000.
- printed it from Word 2000 using PostScript driver (Xerox Docuprint 4517=
)
I got output file of 1.9MB.  It had the same text and the same fonts as=20
initial KWord document.

Loading this file into GS 7.0 works like a charm. GS displayed it correct=
ly=20
(and all font have very good rendering quality)
Besides, I run ps2pdf over this file, and it resulted in nice PDF file ju=
st=20
558K). GS 7.0, again, loaded and correctly displayed this PDF.

So, the real problem it with QT-generated PS code.
It can be that QT generated *correct* Postscript code, but all interprete=
rs=20
hang on it.
So, I think Qt needs a fix here.=20

P.S. It's not a wonder that Adobe has good PostScript printer driver unde=
r=20
Windows. After all, it is already version 4.0 of their driver, or somethi=
ng=20
like this. Can somebody point out where QT stores DTD for its PostScript=20
generation filter? Or, QT doesn't use DTD for it but something different?
(after all, PS is stack-based language, and I am not sure how auto-genera=
tion=20
of PS code is handled)
All application running under KDE will benefit from improved PostScript=20
driver. I guess we should try to focus here.

--=20

Vadim Plessky
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