[NBLUG/talk] Printing PDF files - slow...

[Dave Sisley]

Ken McGlothlen wrote:
> Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> writes:
>
>   
>> | I've run into a problem at work where there's a need to print PDFs, and 
>> | I never noticed how slow that can be for certain files.  [...]
>>     
>
> | In testing on my own machine, I'm just using cups.  I tried to export the
> | file to a .ps file, but it didn't seem to speed up things:  kpdf created a
> | 39mb postscript file from the 1.5mb .pdf.  This file is, as I said, graphics
> | intensive.
>
> Okay, that's a lot of PostScript to interpret, and if it's not terribly
> efficient PostScript, then yes, the printer *can* bog down.  But the other
> file---the one under 500K---is more of a puzzler.  And if the first one is
> printing fine on a Mac, then I'd think again it might be your print spooler.
>
> Hm.
>
> Would you mind sending me the files so that I could have a look at them?
>
> ---Ken
I've forwarded the files offlist.

-dave.


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Dave Sisley
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