RE: PDF printing issues
Well that make's sense I suppose... I'll add that to my list of ideas :) Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Tim Do [mailto:t...@wng.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 8:55 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: PDF printing issues Thanks Mark... I used a couple of your suggestions to speed it up a bit. But the moment that I set the dpi from 600 to 300, bam! Pages printed beautifully. -Original Message- From: Mark A. Kruger [mailto:mkru...@cfwebtools.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: PDF printing issues Tim, There are many tips and tricks to optimizing your pdf generation. Most of them boil down to removing or streamlining the external resources needed. So, for example, if you use an exteneral CSS file, cfdocument has to... -Resolve the URL to the css file -"get" the CSS file via cfhttp -"render" the css into whatever is needed for pdf formatting using the rendering engine -Include the info in-line in the file. Multiply that times all images and external resources needed to produce the single file (unlike HTML everything must be "in" the file). If your PDF takes, say 25 images - that is 25 CF Threads to call those images etc. There are some ways around it and my blog has a lot of great documentation on this subject. http://www.coldfusionmuse.com Do a search for "cfdocument" and you'll get 4 or 5 articles and some tangential ones as well. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Tim Do [mailto:t...@wng.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 2:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: PDF printing issues We're having a bit (HUGE) of a problem printing PDFs created by using cfdocument. We just updated our PDF generator to us CF instead of html2pdf. We are having many users complain that it takes 20-30 minutes to print out PDFs (20-25pgs). The file size itself is about 1mb so file size isn't the problem, although I did notice that the file size balloons up when in the queue, but I read its normal since PDF is compressed. It works on certain printers but not others, same make/model printers as well. We tried updating printer drivers on them but it would work on some but not all. Some of the printers are relatively new with newer drivers. So my question is.. is this a printer driver issue or is this an issue w/ how the PDFs are generated?? Anybody else having problems printer larger PDFs generated with cfdocument/cfpdf? Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340188 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: PDF printing issues
Thanks Mark... I used a couple of your suggestions to speed it up a bit. But the moment that I set the dpi from 600 to 300, bam! Pages printed beautifully. -Original Message- From: Mark A. Kruger [mailto:mkru...@cfwebtools.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: PDF printing issues Tim, There are many tips and tricks to optimizing your pdf generation. Most of them boil down to removing or streamlining the external resources needed. So, for example, if you use an exteneral CSS file, cfdocument has to... -Resolve the URL to the css file -"get" the CSS file via cfhttp -"render" the css into whatever is needed for pdf formatting using the rendering engine -Include the info in-line in the file. Multiply that times all images and external resources needed to produce the single file (unlike HTML everything must be "in" the file). If your PDF takes, say 25 images - that is 25 CF Threads to call those images etc. There are some ways around it and my blog has a lot of great documentation on this subject. http://www.coldfusionmuse.com Do a search for "cfdocument" and you'll get 4 or 5 articles and some tangential ones as well. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Tim Do [mailto:t...@wng.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 2:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: PDF printing issues We're having a bit (HUGE) of a problem printing PDFs created by using cfdocument. We just updated our PDF generator to us CF instead of html2pdf. We are having many users complain that it takes 20-30 minutes to print out PDFs (20-25pgs). The file size itself is about 1mb so file size isn't the problem, although I did notice that the file size balloons up when in the queue, but I read its normal since PDF is compressed. It works on certain printers but not others, same make/model printers as well. We tried updating printer drivers on them but it would work on some but not all. Some of the printers are relatively new with newer drivers. So my question is.. is this a printer driver issue or is this an issue w/ how the PDFs are generated?? Anybody else having problems printer larger PDFs generated with cfdocument/cfpdf? Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340187 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: PDF printing issues
Tim, There are many tips and tricks to optimizing your pdf generation. Most of them boil down to removing or streamlining the external resources needed. So, for example, if you use an exteneral CSS file, cfdocument has to... -Resolve the URL to the css file -"get" the CSS file via cfhttp -"render" the css into whatever is needed for pdf formatting using the rendering engine -Include the info in-line in the file. Multiply that times all images and external resources needed to produce the single file (unlike HTML everything must be "in" the file). If your PDF takes, say 25 images - that is 25 CF Threads to call those images etc. There are some ways around it and my blog has a lot of great documentation on this subject. http://www.coldfusionmuse.com Do a search for "cfdocument" and you'll get 4 or 5 articles and some tangential ones as well. -Mark Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG (402) 408-3733 ext 105 Skype: markakruger www.cfwebtools.com www.coldfusionmuse.com www.necfug.com -Original Message- From: Tim Do [mailto:t...@wng.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 2:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: PDF printing issues We're having a bit (HUGE) of a problem printing PDFs created by using cfdocument. We just updated our PDF generator to us CF instead of html2pdf. We are having many users complain that it takes 20-30 minutes to print out PDFs (20-25pgs). The file size itself is about 1mb so file size isn't the problem, although I did notice that the file size balloons up when in the queue, but I read its normal since PDF is compressed. It works on certain printers but not others, same make/model printers as well. We tried updating printer drivers on them but it would work on some but not all. Some of the printers are relatively new with newer drivers. So my question is.. is this a printer driver issue or is this an issue w/ how the PDFs are generated?? Anybody else having problems printer larger PDFs generated with cfdocument/cfpdf? Thanks, Tim ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340176 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
