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

[Robert P. Thille]

Eric Eisenhart wrote:
> Dave,
> 
> If you're printing PDFs with CUPS as your backend, you should also try
> using simply "lp file.pdf" -- CUPS has all the brains to autodetect
> and autoconvert PDF files already.  Doing things this way may be able
> to translate the PDF directly to the format for your printer without
> an intermediate step of converting to PS.


 From the sound of it, I think his printer setup on the machine doing 
the print spooling (not the printer itself) is doing the rasterizing and 
then sending the bitmaps to the printer.  That would result in the 30MB 
spool file and the slow printing.

So yeah, I think Eric is right and you need to convince CUPS to do the 
right thing, possibly with the selection of the right PPD or a 
configuration option?

Robert


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