pswrite -> ps2write; preserve image quality in PDFs

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/pdftool.pl b/pdftool.pl
index ca9f2a5..fd8e4c7 100755
--- a/pdftool.pl
+++ b/pdftool.pl
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is I<a4>.
 
 If no output file is given, or if a single hyphen-minus (I<->) is given as
 file name, B<PDFTool> sends the data to the standard output. By
-default, B<PDFTool> outputs a PDF document; see B<--ps> to
+default, B<PDFTool> outputs a PDF document; Use B<--ps> to
 get a PostScript instead.
 
 B<PDFTool> does the following passes on the input document:
@@ -182,9 +182,6 @@ on your screen.
 
 By default, B<PDFTool> outputs a PDF document; use this flag if
 you want a PostScript instead.
-Note that due to a L<known limitation|http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/current/Issues.htm#Known_Limitations> of C<gs> with
-the C<pswrite> device, the PostScript output might not be suitable for uses other than printing.
-
 
 =item B<--column>
 
@@ -531,8 +528,7 @@ sub pdftops {
     }
 
     # Convert to PS
-    # TODO: use gs & pswrite the day it'll handle fonts properly
-    #       (the flag `-origpagesizes' seems not to be portable)
+    # TODO: use gs & ps2write, more portable
     my @cmd = ('pdftops', '-origpagesizes', $infile, '-');
     push @cmd, '-f', $first  if  defined $first;
     push @cmd, '-l', $last  if  defined $last;
@@ -851,11 +847,18 @@ sub pswrite {
         $pagedevice = "/PageSize [$outwidth $outheight]";
     }
 
-    my @device = ('-sDEVICE=pdfwrite');
-    @device = ('-sDEVICE=pswrite', '-dLanguageLevel=3')
-        if defined $psout;
-    my @cmd = (@gs, @device, '-dQUIET', '-dBATCH', '-dNOPAUSE',
-                    '-sOutputFile=%stdout%', '-dAutoRotatePages=/None',
+    my $device = '-sDEVICE=pdfwrite';
+    $device = '-sDEVICE=ps2write' if defined $psout;
+    my @cmd = (@gs, '-dQUIET', '-dBATCH', '-dNOPAUSE', $device, 
+                    '-dAutoRotatePages=/None',
+                    '-dDetectDuplicateImages=false',
+                    # Preserve image quality
+                    '-dAutoFilterColorImages=false',
+                    '-dAutoFilterGrayImages=false',
+                    '-dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode',
+                    '-dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode',
+                    '-dMonoImageFilter=/FlateEncode',
+                    '-sOutputFile=%stdout%', 
                     '-c', "<< $pagedevice >> setpagedevice",
                     '-f', '-');