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> Behalf Of Roger Misteli
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] reduce size of printed data
>
> I had a very similar problem with a 1300 printer. And yes,
> the client had like 50 of them, so telling them to "buy
> something that doesn't suck as much
> as this crap" wasn't an option.
> However, we were printing the documents ourselfes with a
> little Java program and the JPedal library and had to learn
> the hard way, so to say. I don't
> know exactly how Acrobat prints internally, and it largely
> depends on the document itself (Type1 vs Type3 vs TTF, etc.),
> but you need to understand
> that printing a simple character "b" can be done in two ways,
> basically:
> a) the smarter, but not always feasable way would be:
> "drawString(Font font, Color bg, Color fg, int x, int y,
> String "b")" (in Pseudo code, of course)
> b) less smart: Line 0, 0 - 0, 19. bezier .... line... stroke.. fill...
>
c) the character is rasterized and sent as a bitmap to the printer.
Paulo
> You see, you can either simply tell the print processor to
> use a specific font, color, pattern, etc. and draw a
> character at a specific location or
> you can draw the character totally by yourself. if you have a
> PDF with (I think) Type 3 fonts, you basically don't have a
> PDF with a lot of text, but
> only a PDF with a lot of drawing commands and not really text
> anymore. Printing such a document CANNOT be done the easy way
> and needs a lot of memory.
> So it goes back to what document do you really have to print?
> You can also have a document with a 24bit background graphics
> over the whole page. In the PDF size, this might also be a
> small 100k PDF itself, but
> when you print it (or display it) you need memory to display
> that image. If you need to print the document, you need to
> transfer the data to the
> printer, etc. It really depends on your document.
>
> Best regards,
> Rog
>
>
> tib wrote:
> > Roger Misteli <roger.misteli <at> abacus.ch> writes:
> >
> >> Depends on the printer model you have. Very low end models
> like hplj1200 or
> > 1300 have very limited memory and
> >> very limited processing power. The
> >> printer does not support the full PCL 5 or 6 standard and
> the printer driver
> > on the client machine is used to
> >> basically create bitmaps from the
> >> missing features. Depending on the features you use, this
> could be indeed
> > completely translated into a bitmap.
> >> For such printers, there is not really a solution. You're
> basically fuched.
> > JPedal has a Java library that
> >> supports viewing and printing. They
> >> introduced special print modes for PCL printers last year,
> so you might have
> > more success using their code.
> >> But the problem remains: Those low end HP
> >> printers are, sorry, basically crap. The higher end models
> with more memory
> > are better suited for that task.
> >> Best regards,
> >> Rog
> >
> > Thanks.
> > But the "machine pool" (printers) are not interchangeble. :-(
> > Bye :-)
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