Bug 120933

Summary:	Add support for rendering Postscript documents
Product:	[Applications] kpdf	Reporter:	Dik Takken <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dik Takken 2006-01-28 20:32:27 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

As pointed out in Bug 117344 rendering bitmaps in Postscript documents using Ghostscript is very, very slow. Rendering the same bitmap in PDF format using KPDF is about 1000 times faster.

Please implement rendering Postscript documents in KPDF.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2006-01-29 12:56:30 UTC

errr? Kpdf already "renders" PS documents, well, that's just fake, we just use ps2pdf, anyway if we would implement "native" PS rendering (as oKular does) not using ghostscript is a non-option as obiously gs is the only choice, the other choice is doing it yourself from scratch but that is not optimal

Comment 2 Dik Takken 2006-01-29 21:28:16 UTC

Well, ps2pdf does not always yield a PDF document that looks identical to the original Postscript document. KPDF can not be used as a reliable print preview rendering application as long as it does not support native postscript rendering.

Why is not using Ghostscript "not an option"? Isn't postscript similar to pdf?

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2006-01-30 00:11:48 UTC

Patches are welcome