Re: Ghostscript produces much larger pdf files now

At 23:32 22/10/2018 +0200, Flo wrote:


>I am using ghostscript to make pdf files smaller.

Ghostscript isn't intended for that purpose. While it may have that effect 
in some cases, its not a design goal.


>Three days ago I upgraded my system and now I am running 9.25 . However
>the size of the pdf files increased significantly.
>
>I guess a default value changed. Does anyone know about it. I'd like to
>have it the way as it worked before.

You haven't supplied anything like enough information to go on. How can we 
possibly tell what's different without even knowing what's in the input PDF 
file ?


>I compiled the versions 9.24, 9.23 and 9.22:
>It changed from 9.22 to 9.23 . Does anyone has an idea what changed here
>such that the size of the output pdf files are bigger?

Our Git repository is here:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=summary

Lots of stuff changed.


>PS: I am using:
>gs -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
>-sOutputFile="$outputfile" "$@"

If you think you've found a bug, please report it at bugs.ghostscript.com. 
Don't forget to include the input file as well as the command line.

Note that gs-devel is *not* intended for support on using Ghostscript, its 
for questions relating to development of software using Ghostscript, or 
developing Ghostscript itself). We may support free users at our discretion 
(and of course we fix bugs) but in general the open source version of 
Ghostscript is supplied without support.


                 Regards,


                         Ken Sharp