@cliddell Wow, thank you for all these informations. As I said before, my first sample (gmap.pdf) prints quickly now with pdftocairo. For this document, it seems that few extra processing is done.
However, the second sample (see appout of my printer test page, also created by Cairo) was still slow to print, even with pdftocairo (with much extra processing, as you describe). If I choose (as you suggested) 600 dpi instead ProRes 1200, this sheet is printed in less than a minute. It's not "quick" but acceptable now for my home need. I see some differences on the intensity of the logo and dashed lines, but overall the quality appears to be good enough. So I now set this printer in 600 dpi by default. I continue to observe that pdftocairo is quicker (big difference for gmap.pdf), so I conserve this setting also. Is there any drawback to this? If not, why not set pdftocairo as the default renderer, for postscript printers? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1476705 Title: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/1476705/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
