Re: [Gnome-print] Encoding in postscript output

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

On 05 Jun 2001 13:20:45 -0500, Chema Celorio wrote:
> Scott Gifford wrote:
> > My current implementation will add about 700 bytes of overhead to
> > every postscript output file, to define a wrapper for showimage that
> > makes decoding straightforward.  Is there any way around this for
> > documents that don't use images at all?
> 
> Yes, if they don't use images we don't need to write the header.
> This means that we will have to generate the postscript in two
> passes. But again, lets implement it in a basci way and then we
> can improve it. 700 bytes is not a huge deal too, specially
> with the size gains that we get if we have images.

Starting from 0.29 ps2 is 2-pass context :( This is needed for
DSC-compliant font embedding, unless we want to embed
each used font in every page.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski