On Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:19, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > 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 :)
Nice. I ask only as I know some CJK fonts are relatively large. Also, you might try a different driver, perhaps GIMP-print drivers. I think there are some for PS2 laser jets. > > >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. Could be. I am sending separately, the Scribus file which has your graph as a native sla file. > > >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. > There are two ways of importing EPS into Scribus. One is to rasterize it, by importing it like a picture. The other is a true import, which imports vectors as native scribus objects. This when available is often preferable. > >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? > Yes. please file a bug and attach everything. bugs.scribus.net has a 5 mb file limit. It may not be a problem with Scribus, but at the least, we can figure out for sure where the issue lies. > >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:) Yes. But in some cases its easier to export a PDF and then print from Acroreader with kprinter. Why? There are fewer issues printing files with transparency, etc.. I rarely encounter problems like this even with simple inkjets. the acroreader + kprinter works well, when my printer won't support some features directly. Cheers, Peter
