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by stephan2807
2015-01-27T13:19:07-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs
Replies: 4
Views: 3197

Re: convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs

Many thanks. Looks like it is the ghostscript version.
Did a test on Windows with pure gs 9.05, 9.10 and 9.15:
- 9.05 is extremely slow as I observed on Linux
- 9.10 and 9.15 are equaly fast like in your test.
The results are almost the same accross all the 3 gs-versions.

gs-call was:
gswin32c -q ...
by stephan2807
2015-01-27T05:34:50-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs
Replies: 4
Views: 3197

Re: convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs

Thanks for the reply Fred.

I put 2 sample files here:
* http://148.251.8.102/RGB.pdf
* http://148.251.8.102/CMYK.pdf

My conversion times are 0.2s vs. 11s.
* convert RGB.pdf rgb.jpg (0.2s)
* convert CMYK.pdf cmyk.jpg (11s)

In the real application the conversion for CMYK is a bit more complex ...
by stephan2807
2015-01-26T08:04:07-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs
Replies: 4
Views: 3197

convert very slow for CMYK-PDFs

Hello,

I encounter very slow PDF-conversions for CMYK-PDFs: 15 seconds for an example CMYK-PDF vs. 0.5 seconds when I manually convert the PDF to RGB before putting it into IM.

Is there any way to speed up the conversion for CMYK-PDFs? I believe it has to do with the options IM uses for the call ...