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Sending lots of data to the printer

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Topic: Sending lots of data to the printer

Posted By: yoyodyn
Subject: Sending lots of data to the printer
Date Posted: 16 Dec 16 at 10:57PM

I have a PDF (generated through other means not completely under my control) that is 566KB on the disk. But when I try to print this file using the PDF Library, it is sending 73.5MB to the printer and taking 2-4 minutes to print. Can anyone explain why this might be the case?

If I print the same file with Adobe Acrobat, it only sends 3.68MB to the printer.

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 17 Dec 16 at 11:53AM

Hi,

first: you shouldn't compare the results of a slim line pdf-library with a 100-mb-installation of an adobe product ;-)

Each pdf-page will be rendered as an image and then sent to the printer - so that size will increase should be normal behavior.

In your case i think that additionally the pdf is really malformed regarding the structure.

Anyway here a few threads from this forum regarding your issue:

http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2285&KW=printer+pdf+mb+large&PID=9712&title=spool-is-very-large#9712

http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1942&KW=printer+pdf+mb+large&PID=8262&title=printer-memory-errors#8262

http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2794&KW=printer+pdf+mb+large&PID=11376&title=renderpagetodc-performance-question#11376

Cheers and welcome here,

Ingo

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Cheers,
Ingo