Re: attack of the 30meg print doc

[mike808@users.sourceforge.net]

> oh cow, i didn't realize there was so much compression in pdf, pdf2ps 
> turned the 2 meg doc into a 30 meg doc, ok so it's not the subsystem 
> thats causing the problem, how would one say take a pdf and print it in pcl 
> lang (like winblows, which seems to send reasonable size print docs from the 
> same pdf), is there a pdf2pcl that i'm missing, or maybe a way to
> send compressed postscript directly to the printer (pdf)

Maybe there's so much compression because there's not a lot of content? :=)
Why don't you get a PS-capable printer? :=)

Seriously, you can use Ghostscript (which uses pdf2ps internally) and try 
using the command line options specific to PDF:
  -dFirstPage=pagenumber 
    Begins interpreting on the designated page of the document. 
  -dLastPage=pagenumber 
    Stops interpreting after the designated page of the document. 

Printing small page ranges of the document might shrink your temp file to
where it will fit on your system.

Mike808/

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