Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1476705
Title:
[SOLVED] postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)
Status in poppler package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in system-config-printer package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
With my (old) postscript printer, print a single page can take many
minutes on some situations. It happens with some PDF files (not all)
and Firefox printing of Google map, for example. When this happens, I
observed in system monitor that pdftops is running continuously. After
some manual PDF -> PS conversions, I see that pdftops inflates the
file size for problematic cases, but is ok for other files (size
similar to the original file, or even smaller). I don't know if modern
Postscript printers can handle this quickly, but it's unacceptable
here and certainly not an efficient way to print those files.
So I suspect that pdftops should be fixed.
For example, I join a problematic pdf produced by Google Map in
Firefox. I tried many conversions. As you can see, I get a much larger
file (36 times) with pdftops. It is worse with pdf2ps (and it takes
longer to process), so replace pdftops by pdf2ps is not an option for
me. However, pdftocairo quickly produces an efficient file. I have the
same success if I open the PDF file with Evince and print it as a
Postscript file. I get a similar file if I print to PS directly from
Google Map (Firefox). Of course these small PS files produced by
pdftocairo, Evince of Firefox print flawlessly on my printer.
See also Bug # 1095498 which I suspect is the same (old) thing, but I fill a
new one since it doesn't seem to be printer specific.
Of course, another workaround could be to use a PCL driver but no one is
available for my printer (HP Color Laserjet 2605dn).
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