On Wednesday 08 September 2004 06:19 am, 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 :) > > >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:)
When I can't print from Scribus I export it as an eps file and use ghostscript from the command line: gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lj5mono -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dDITHERPPI=100 -r1200 -sOUTPUTFILE=\|lpr yourfile.eps -c quit You will have to adjust the -sDEVICE= to your own printer; I use a HP Laserjet 1300. Wayne
