Tested again with Ghostscript 9.06 on Quantal, on a laptop with dual core, 8GB and SSD and it took 20 sec to process.
till@till-desktop:~$ time gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -dLanguageLevel=3 -dCompressFonts=false -dNoT3CCITT -dEncodeMonoImages=false -dEncodeColorImages=false -c save pop -f 008094f83574e > output.ps real 0m20.041s user 0m16.849s sys 0m3.136s till@till-desktop:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968785 Title: ghostscript runs for indefinitely long period of time when called by foomatic-rip To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo/+bug/968785/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs