Dear Rick, I was recently cleaning up some of my incoming e-mail logs and found this post from you to the LPRng mailing list. I have two Adobe documents that create the error you have described when I try to print either of the whole documents rather than just a page range. It appears this is because they are English language PDF's that are conversions from some other original language. When you print the documents from Acrobat, the resulting spool files are very large.
In my case, the size of a spool file created when trying to print the whole document is larger than the spool space alloted to the queue on the server that services the network printer in question. During the transmission of the spool file from my PC to the server queue, the transmission is aborted because the maximum spool space for the queue is exceeded and the error that displays in Adobe Acrobat is the one you referenced in your post. I thought you might find this information useful since you mention that the users have not been able to replicate the problem on a consistent basis. HTH Best Regards, /Paul -- Paul Tykodi National Product Manager Intermate US Inc. p: 603-431-0606 x115 f: 603-436-6432 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.intermate.com >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >Rick Cochran >Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:00 PM >To: lprng >Subject: LPRng: "This job requires more memory" errors > > >I'm using the latest Adobe drivers. > >Some of my users have reported seeing error output like this: > > This job requires more memory than is available in this printer > [additional verbiage deleted] > >So far, nobody has been able to reproduce this problem reliably, so I'm >just shooting in the dark. > >The PostScript code for print jobs contains occasional checks of the >form "nnnnn VM?" where nnnnn is a number of bytes which the PostScript >driver thinks will be needed and VM? is an operator which subtracts the >currently used VM (virtual memory) from the maximum available VM, >compares it with nnnnn, and prints the error message above if it is not >enough. >Unfortunately, it's not clear where the maximum available VM figure >comes from. It's possible that it has something to do with the >"Available PostScript Memory" parameter in the "Printer Settings" tab of >the "Printer Properties" dialog box for the print queue. > >The "Available PostScript Memory" parameter gets automatically modified >(presumably in a reasonable fashion) when the "Total Memory" parameter >is set. Since the default value for "Total Memory" (4MB for HP >printers) is _very_ low compared to our recommended 64MB, it's possible >that this setting is responsible for these errors. > >Another possible reason for lack of memory would be memory leaks in the >printers' print engines. > >Any helpful comments would be appreciated. >-Rick > >-- >|Rick Cochran phone: 607-255-7618| >|Cornell CIT - Systems & Operations - Net-Print FAX: 607-255-8521| >|730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
