Paul,
Yes indeed! Very helpful!
I keep forgetting that Microsoft doesn't speak the same language as the rest of
us ("memory" = "disk space").
I will relay this to the people who were experiencing the errors.
Thanks!
-Rick
Paul Tykodi wrote:
> Dear Rick,
>
> I was recently cleaning up some of my incoming e-mail logs and found this
> post from you to the LPRng mailing list. I have two Adobe documents that
> create the error you have described when I try to print either of the whole
> documents rather than just a page range. It appears this is because they are
> English language PDF's that are conversions from some other original
> language. When you print the documents from Acrobat, the resulting spool
> files are very large.
>
> In my case, the size of a spool file created when trying to print the whole
> document is larger than the spool space alloted to the queue on the server
> that services the network printer in question. During the transmission of
> the spool file from my PC to the server queue, the transmission is aborted
> because the maximum spool space for the queue is exceeded and the error that
> displays in Adobe Acrobat is the one you referenced in your post.
>
> I thought you might find this information useful since you mention that the
> users have not been able to replicate the problem on a consistent basis.
>
> HTH
>
> Best Regards,
>
> /Paul
> --
> Paul Tykodi
> National Product Manager
> Intermate US Inc.
>
> p: 603-431-0606 x115
> f: 603-436-6432
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
>>Rick Cochran
>>Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 4:00 PM
>>To: lprng
>>Subject: LPRng: "This job requires more memory" errors
>>
>>
>>I'm using the latest Adobe drivers.
>>
>>Some of my users have reported seeing error output like this:
>>
>> This job requires more memory than is available in this printer
>> [additional verbiage deleted]
>>
>>So far, nobody has been able to reproduce this problem reliably, so I'm
>>just shooting in the dark.
>>
>>The PostScript code for print jobs contains occasional checks of the
>>form "nnnnn VM?" where nnnnn is a number of bytes which the PostScript
>>driver thinks will be needed and VM? is an operator which subtracts the
>>currently used VM (virtual memory) from the maximum available VM,
>>compares it with nnnnn, and prints the error message above if it is not
>>enough.
>
>
>>Unfortunately, it's not clear where the maximum available VM figure
>>comes from. It's possible that it has something to do with the
>>"Available PostScript Memory" parameter in the "Printer Settings" tab of
>>the "Printer Properties" dialog box for the print queue.
>>
>>The "Available PostScript Memory" parameter gets automatically modified
>>(presumably in a reasonable fashion) when the "Total Memory" parameter
>>is set. Since the default value for "Total Memory" (4MB for HP
>>printers) is _very_ low compared to our recommended 64MB, it's possible
>>that this setting is responsible for these errors.
>>
>>Another possible reason for lack of memory would be memory leaks in the
>>printers' print engines.
>>
>>Any helpful comments would be appreciated.
>>-Rick
>>
>>--
>>|Rick Cochran phone: 607-255-7618|
>>|Cornell CIT - Systems & Operations - Net-Print FAX: 607-255-8521|
>>|730 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
>
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