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. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
