Plinnell wrote: >On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14:07, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > >>I spent two days design a publication, and the draft must be printed >>tomorrow. I only have this Laserjet ps level 2 printer in the office, if >>I could not print it, I'll have to find another good print shop to do it. >> >>1) print with postscript level 3 make the printer puzzle. Nothing gets >>printed. >>2) print with postscript level 2, nothing gets printed, ghostscript >>coredumps. >>3) print to a ps file at level 2, 0 byte file created, ghostscript >>coredumps. >>4) print to a ps file at level 3, upload it to >>http://createpdf.adobe.com and Adobe give me back a pdf file. Print the >>PDF file by acroread5, the printer busy flash LED for one hour and >>prompt "low printer memory". (Print job size is 2.4 MB and printer >>memory is 24MB.) >>5) export the file as 150 dpi raster image file, print the file using >>cups lp(1), result is ugly and hard to recognize, all fonts less than >>9pt could not read, not clear. >>6) export as svg not tried: I don't have good apps to print in that format. >>7) export as PDF file, acroead (both Windows version 6 and Linux version >>5) prompt "error number 122" and half of the pulication objects are not >>visible (most notibly, the two charts) >> >>So there is no way to print it :( >> >>I don't know why, I am only designing a one page report with two charts >>(vector graphics), and scribus takes 10 min to load saved document on my >>PIII 800MHz 256 MB memory freeBSD box, and swap memory usage grows very >>soon from 0MB to 321MB. Is scribus this CPU hungary? >> >> > >1) How many Chinese fonts are in the doc ? > > two chinese fonts and one English font. I am one of the maintainers of the Chinese fonts I used :)
>2) Have you imported any thing as EPS or PDF ? > > Yes. After failed on importing a chart from openoffice as SVG (see previous post replied by you), I imported it as EPS. Is this likely to be an issue? Sorry I am dumb on this. >3) You could try converting all fonts to outlines before attempting to print >or the opposite is occuring, the postscript outlines are too complex for the >Laser Jet to print. > > perhaps my printer is too limited. >4) The slow loading is unusual. I can comfortably open and export 70-90 page >docs with my elderly PII 450 on Suse 9.1. I have opened and exported large >docs with 150 page plus, which resulted in a 250 Mb PDF. > > OOOps:) How comes! I am a new user, my publications so far are pretty slow. Perhaps I am just bad luck. >The error number 122 and acro reader issue, I've never ever seen. > > Do you think I should now record how to produce this issue and file a bug? I am not sure if it's a problem of scribus or the font, or the reader. Should I attach the error pdf file? >As a general note, printing to PS 2 level lasers sometimes can be very slow >from DTP apps. I've seen this with both Quark 4 and 5, as well as PM 7. DTP >apps in general create more complex PS output than other apps. > Is there easy workaround? The publications can be sent to press house for final printing, however I wish it is possible to alway print a draft on my LaserJet. Don't you creat draft on a desktop printer by chance just to see how it looks like? :-) Thank you:)
