Has anyone noticed a deterioration in printing performance since JRE 1.3? We sell a document viewer. A customer reported that printing performance was much worse in 1.3.1_02 than 1.3, for both raster and vector files.
I downloaded JRE 1.4.1_01, and found that spool sizes and print times were comparable to 1.3.1_02, and that both of these JRE's were in fact much worse compared to 1.3 when it comes to printing times and spool sizes for a number of files. For example, a vector file that printed in 45 s, spool size of 1.15 MB with JRE 1.3, blew up to 9.15 MB and took 13 minutes to print in 1.3.1_02, according to our customer! That's right, it took over 15 times as long to print, and the spool file size was 9 times bigger! I found a raster file that printed in 40 s and spooled to 11 MB in JRE 1.3, took 2.5 minutes to print, and 20.9 MB in 1.4.1_01. That's 4 times as long to print, and double the spool size! We are finding comparable differences on other printers and on different Windows operating systems (although as usual some printers are much better than others and the newer Win O/S's are better). Can someone from Sun please comment on this one? Thanks. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
