On 03.11.2006 Mark D Lew wrote:
I don't understand the details, but I know it is associated with lack of
memory. Closing other programs, or being sure that the computer isn't doing
something else while printing, often made a difference. Sometimes it helped if
I'd print only a page or two at a time rather than the whole document.
Occasionally I'd have a file I couldn't print right at all, and I'd have to
print it from someone else's computer.
I haven't had the problem at all since I upgraded my computer a few years ago.
I always imagined the problem was a consequence of working on an old dinosaur
computer. But I don't really know that. Everything I surmised about the
problem was from trial and error plus speculation.
... Oh, I almost forgot. There was a function that said something like "download
fonts to printer", which I could choose before printing. I *always* did that. If I
didn't it was a mess.
What you are describing is typical of postscript problems, but I have
never heard of this with non-postscript printers. The lack of memory
would have to be in the computer (there are no fonts being downloaded to
the printer), and I am on MacOS X which by definition should not really
run into memory problems (other than getting slower).
It seems that Distiller embeds such a lot of subsets of Maestro
separately that it simply gets confused in the end. I have not tried
switching that option off, especially as the PDFs produced with PStill
are less than half the size than the distiller files.
I will stick with PStill until someone explains to me what is happening
and tells me the cure. Since the problems do not show on screen it is
simply far too risky to go the Distiller route.
Johannes
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