MyOSS Magazine - Edition 2 Available Now

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:47 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:44 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> >
> > Okay.. Now this is a first I've heard of. I printed a few copies on an
> > HP ColorLaserJet (can't remember the Model) and it came out in like 10
> > min.
> >
> > HP LaserJet 5N also no issues.
> >
> > Is this a bubblejet? Acroread/Acrobat/xpdf/gpdf?? Would be good to know
> > if it's the printer or the pdf or the pdf app.
> >
> > What if you print a NON graphic page? How long that does take?
> >
> > 36 pages = 3 hours = 1 hour ~10pages = ~5 min per page??
> >
> I printed on the HP4600, 
> an intermediate level business color laser printer. I print pdf's and manuals 
> and long things like this all the time. I just printed the .pdf for Firewall 
> Builder, about 113 pages. I didn't time it but it was under an hour, and that 
> was doing two sided, which I also did with your magazine. We don't use this 
> printer for non-graphic pages - it was bought specifically for doing color 
> graphics. The software was Acrobat, ver 6. 


Okay.. I don't know what else to say. 

What I did found was page rendering using XPDF or Acroread 5 on a Win
Machine is much faster than when I open it on Acroread 7 on my Linux
Box.

Not sure if that may be one culprit.

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Ow Mun Heng
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