Bug 34003

Summary:	patch to add a pdftops -binary option for binary output
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	William Bader <williambader>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	williambader
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Attachments:	patch to add a pdftops -binary option for binary output

Description William Bader 2011-02-07 12:45:42 UTC

Created attachment 43042 [details] [review]
patch to add a pdftops -binary option for binary output

This patch adds a -binary option to pdftops to write binary PostScript with -level1 and -level1sep.  By default, pdftops writes hex-encoded data in Level 1 PostScript.  Binary data is non-standard in Level 1 PostScript but reduces the file size and can be useful when Level 1 PostScript is required only for its restricted use of PostScript operators.
Some days I need to run as many as 1,000 PDFs through pdftops with -level1sep, and this change has the potential to decrease the disk usage by 50%.  I need Level 1 so that I can do software color separation, but my printers support Level 3 and can handle binary data.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2011-02-08 11:53:31 UTC

Will be in poppler 0.18

Comment 2 William Bader 2011-02-08 12:08:05 UTC

Thanks.  It will make a difference in my disk usage.

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