[ replying on the topic of the new PDF interpreter alone because it really bothers me that you keep making wrong claims in that regard ]
On Wed, 2023-01-04 at 15:13 +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > With extractpdfmark > > =================== > > > > PS backend: > > > > 4,8M Documentation/out-www/en/notation.pdf > > FYI: Using a recent GS version with its new PDF backend, the size > gets larger than 20MByte. I guess this is a bug, and I will soon > report this to the GS people so that it gets fixed in the next GS > version (in March), which will eventually drop the old PDF engine > completely. > > On the other hand, GS's new PDF engine no longer contains a PS > interpreter; it is possible that `extractpdfmark` doesn't work > anymore, and we have to find something new... This is wrong, or at least the new PDF *interpreter* (which is, in my understanding, not to be confused with the PDF driver to output PDF) in itself is not to blame here: The new interpreter was already enabled by default in Ghostscript 9.56 and this version still works perfectly fine, yielding small PDF sizes together with extractpdfmark.
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