I realize I'm not answering the question, but I fixed slow pdf printing by changing from the "prefered" printer driver.
If memory serves, I just tried them one by one until I find those that printed a small pdf quickly and then traded off the quality of the test page. I ended up with the Gutenberg driver instead of the preferred driver. FWIW, my driver is exactly "Brother HL-1270N - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.3 Simplified". Which I found out from: http://127.0.0.1:631/printers . HTH -- Patrick Timlick On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:16 AM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:20 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net > >wrote: > > > I have a Thinkpad T61 with Intel Core2 Duo at 2.00 GHz on which I have > > Jaunty x86_64. At the moment I am trying to print a couple of pages of > > a PDF from Okular and it is taking forever to image. While I watch the > > progress in System Monitor I note that the CPUs switch back and forth. > > That is, for a while CPU1 will be at or near 100% and CPU2 will be > > around 30%. After a while they swap and CPU1 will be at 30% or so and > > CPU2 will be at or near 100%. I get the same results from Adobe Reader > > 9.1. However, Adobe Reader is so slow that I killed it after waiting 20 > > minutes. > > > > I am wondering how Linux decides which CPU to use for which process. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > I don't know which apps are multi-threaded but if they are they can use > both > CPU's which could be why it's bouncing back and forth between the 2. How > big > are the PDF's you're working with? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
