[lug] printing pdfs to postscript printers

[Elyse M. Grasso]

On Thursday 22 July 2004 10:30 am, John Hernandez wrote:
> Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
> > Using pdf2ps I have discovered that  a 5 meg pdf file expands to a 337 MB 
ps 
> > file, so I'm clearly running out of memory to build the page images in the 
> > printer. Not to mention temp and spool space on the laptop (KDE gets 
really 
> > cranky when it runs out of temp space... and the symptoms are strange)
> > 
> > This file size explosion is especially surprising since pdf and postscript 
are 
> > both Adobe formats, and pdf is supposed to be derived from postscript. Is 
> > this really normal?
> 
> If you can't find a way to create a small enough ps file for your 
> system, maybe you can try using psselect to chop the file into smaller 
> pieces before spooling.

I suspect even most single page images in these files will choke my printer: 
they've got images of power point slides (more or less) on them. And I wasn't 
joking when I described the printer as an antique: it's about 12 years old, I 
think, so we're talking about tiny memory by modern standards.

Ah well, time for a new printer, once I scrape up some cash. Maybe with color.

-- 
Elyse Grasso

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