[lug] printing pdfs to postscript printers

[John Hernandez]

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.

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