Re: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Tilman Hausherr
Am 26.08.2016 um 22:18 schrieb Clark, Raymond C: Thank you, I guess I'm off to look for a tool to create PostScript files out of Java. Thank you all for your help with my question :) I think Apache FOP can also generate PS files. Tilman Thank you, Ray -Original Message- From: J

RE: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Clark, Raymond C
Thank you, I guess I'm off to look for a tool to create PostScript files out of Java. Thank you all for your help with my question :) Thank you, Ray -Original Message- From: John Hewson [mailto:j...@jahewson.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 3:12 PM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subjec

Re: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread John Hewson
> On 26 Aug 2016, at 13:09, Tilman Hausherr wrote: > > Am 26.08.2016 um 21:57 schrieb Clark, Raymond C: >> Hi Tilman, >> >> Thank you for the reply. I don't see how that post was the same as mine and >> is answered. Forgive me. > > I tought you were the same person, some of the code looked

Re: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Tilman Hausherr
Am 26.08.2016 um 21:57 schrieb Clark, Raymond C: Hi Tilman, Thank you for the reply. I don't see how that post was the same as mine and is answered. Forgive me. I tought you were the same person, some of the code looked identical. If not - sorry! Some users ask the same question on SO and

RE: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Clark, Raymond C
Hi Tilman, Thank you for the reply. I don't see how that post was the same as mine and is answered. Forgive me. That question was "What do I need to change to create a reasonably sized PostScript file?" The only answer that I see is that PostScript files are big by nature. My question was

Re: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Tilman Hausherr
Asked and answered in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39109841/printing-to-postscript-with-pdfbox-produces-a-massive-file-why Additionally, re the comment of Ken Sharp (who is a Ghostcript guy and thus has my maximum respect): PDFBox is not a converter, it renders regardless of the target f

PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated

2016-08-26 Thread Clark, Raymond C
Hi, I am using PDFBox to create PDFs and that is working great. I need to take those PDF files and produce PostScript files from them. I can do that but the file is bloated. I am creating the content streams with compress = true. It seems to be that the following code is producing the PS fi