>> Honestly, a fourfold size increase is not something that I would >> call 'acceptable'. > > Upstream might need some convincing. > > Ghostscript's Ken Sharp in 2017: > > "When we have customers wanting to send us 125GB files I have to say > that a concern over file sizes in the few megabytes seems a bit > picky." > > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2017-09/msg00131.html>
Well, in this case it's the Cairo people we would have to convince. We could then get rid of Ghostscript completely. Werner