On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:38:00 -0700 Aaron Burt <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:08:44PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have a 90 MB PDF file that was supplied to me by the assistant to a > > PSU professor. I need to print 250 copies of this 152 page file to a > > Laserjet 8000DN (Clonescript 2.0, gobs of RAM, all the options). And my > > Jaunty x86_64 computer has a dual-core 2GHz CPU and 4 GB of RAM. > > I'm not sure even "gobs of RAM" can hold all 152 pages, assuming that CUPS > even knows how to handle the extra RAM in your printer. > > You will probably have to hand-collate, I'm sorry to say. > > You may be able to use evince, acroread or pdftk + pdf2ps/pdftops (they all > produce different output) to batch up, say, 10 or 30 pages of postscript at > a time and then hand-collate from there. > > As for making a smaller PDF for online reading or presentations, ps2pdf > lets you choose the image resolution, if I remember correctly. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I still haven't hit on a solution. I have Windows 2000 installed in Virtualbox, so I opened the original file in Adobe Reader 9.1 there. In Win 2000 I have the PCL and PS drivers installed, so I tried printing the file to both. The PS driver just printed an "offending command" error. The PCL driver printed the first dozen pages OK, then started printing half pages, pieces of pages, error codes, and just a general mess. The creator of the document has been away, but I was able to communicate with her this morning. I am going to have her re-export from InDesign with some specific settings, like lowering the resolution for graphics, choosing "print" instead of "press," and setting it PDF 1.3 instead of whatever it is. Hopefully that will get me a usable file. I tried ps2pdf using the > to redirect the output to file (thanks Bill!). It produced the file, but it was of 0 bytes. This is the PS print file that won't print via lpr either. I created the PS print file by printing the original PDF to file from Okular. And Okular is the only program that can actually print the original PDF, albeit glacially. At this point I must conclude that there is something messed up in the original PDF file and I should wait until the creator of the file sends me a new one. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
