Package: ghostscript
Version: 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7
Severity: normal
I observe that gs -sDEVICE=bbox can be pathologically slow: on the
file attached as example it takes about 20 seconds. Using gs to show
on screen is fine, takes under 0.5 seconds.
Within my printing setup I had been using gs to count pages in PS files
with something like
gs -P- -dSAFER -o - -sDEVICE=bbox file.ps 2>&1 | \
grep HiResBoundingBox | wc -l
Recently noticed that for some print jobs, gs took up to 10 minutes.
(Seems this happens most often for PDF files sent as PS from Macs.)
This is a recent issue, not sure whether triggered by some update on
Mac, or of ghostscript. Noticed that ps2ps is also slow on these files,
not as dramatically as BBOX.
Thanks, Paul
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Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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