It's the end of the quarter...

[zwol]

and you know what that means. Yes, it's time for me to rant about moronic PDF generators again. Today's hall of shame: separate inline images for each scan line of a bitmap. Ya rly.

q 322.1999 0 0 0.06 55.3408 720.2258 cm BI
/W 537 /H 1 /BPC 4 /CS /DeviceGray ID two hundred and sixty-nine bytes of line noise EI Q

Repeat seven thousand times.

Unlike most of the times I bitch about moronic PDF generators, this one actually matters. You get to sit there and watch the thing paint, one line at a time.

(Based on the file metadata, the offending software appears to be one of Parlance Publisher 5.0, Xyvision Postscript Formatter, or (unlikely) Acrobat Distiller 3.02b.)