Bug 120933 - Add support for rendering Postscript documents
Summary: Add support for rendering Postscript documents
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kpdf
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Albert Astals Cid
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Reported: 2006-01-28 20:32 UTC by Dik Takken
Modified: 2006-01-30 00:11 UTC (History)
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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