On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Sam Liddicott <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is filed as a bug on
> gs: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691914
> and also on texmacs: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33302
>
> Sam
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Under gs 9, pdf export from QTeXmacs has a problem (derived from gs 9).
>>
>> Applying the simple patch below by Sam (changing 2 lines in the
>> source) fixes it.
>>
>> My document shrank from about 70M to just 14M with just this change,
>> and it became possible to export it in a reasonable time, view it and
>> print it.
>>
>> I would strongly advise to apply this patch in the main distribution;
>> Users of TeXmacs with documents containing as few as a single high-res
>> image may be experiencing hell upon exporting to pdf.
>>
>> Sam: thank you for sharing this! (and Miguel from digging it up!)
>>
>> Álvaro.

Does it by any chance fix the same problem with the export of beamer
document? (The problem is that the background texture is replicated
and the ps grows enormously with larger presentations. ps2pdf
compresses it back to reasonable size.)

Thanks,
Łukasz