The gnome document reader "evince" is pretty snappy, it might be worth a
try...

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:53:57 -0700
> "Patrick J. Timlick" <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> > I realize I'm not answering the question, but I fixed slow pdf printing
> by
> > changing from the "prefered" printer driver.
> >
> > If memory serves, I just tried them one by one until I find those that
> > printed a small pdf quickly and then traded off the quality of the test
> > page.  I ended up with the Gutenberg driver instead of the preferred
> driver.
> >
> > FWIW, my driver is exactly "Brother HL-1270N - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.3
> > Simplified".  Which I found out from: http://127.0.0.1:631/printers .
>
> The problem is not slow printing at the printer; that is, the driver is
> not the issue. Once the print job gets to CUPS it is sent rapidly to
> the printer which images it in less than a minute. The problem is in
> the PDF reader (Okular or Adobe Reader 9.1). Okular takes about ten
> minutes to send just one page of the 132 page document to CUPS; Adobe
> Reader over twice that long.
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