On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 23:18, William Bader <[email protected]>wrote: > > Recent versions of pdftops have a -r option to set the rasterization > resolution. > Increasing the resolution can create large files, but you can match the > resolution to the printer so no detail is lost. > The default of 300 is good for viewing on-screen but a little low for > printing. >
I did see the resolution flag. While this does mitigate things to some extent, many PostScript printers benefit wildly from being sent vector instructions, especially for text. > > Another option is writing a comment so pdftops always creates a valid > file, but applications can check for the comment and optionally process the > pdf through another application. > > The issue is that rasterization is slow. I'd like to know *early* if it's going to be rasterized. Some PDFs can be close to a gigabyte, and having to run two passes can be rather intense.
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