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thyslo · 26 February 2019, 09:03

So yesterday I tried the GhostScript 8.70 package for pdf rendering. I was using the gs command for rendering. And it went well..but I was a bit baffled how slow it was.

On an emulated 68040 (as fast as possible but no JIT, SysInfo states it as 1.8 x as fast as an A4000/25) I could see how a pdf was "painted" line by line. It took e.g. forty seconds to display one page. I tried different pdfs, always the same.

I'm just wondering, because on the same system displaying some jpeg images using PicShow didn't take nearly as long.

So is there any known speed-up option in GhostScript?

26 February 2019, 09:03	#8
thyslo Registered User Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Germany Posts: 189	So yesterday I tried the GhostScript 8.70 package for pdf rendering. I was using the gs command for rendering. And it went well..but I was a bit baffled how slow it was. On an emulated 68040 (as fast as possible but no JIT, SysInfo states it as 1.8 x as fast as an A4000/25) I could see how a pdf was "painted" line by line. It took e.g. forty seconds to display one page. I tried different pdfs, always the same. I'm just wondering, because on the same system displaying some jpeg images using PicShow didn't take nearly as long. So is there any known speed-up option in GhostScript?