[softwarelist] Re: Printing from PDF files

Although, as an aside, we have seen LOTS of problems between recent
Acrobat versions and HP "PostScript" printers, probably due to HP's
long-ago switch from Adobe to their own Postscript clone. Many PDF
files when printed from Acrobat 7 will simply crash recent HP printers.
In some cases this can be fixed with a firmware upgrade for the
printer, either by download or buying a DIMM, but in some the problem

My experiments reveal that Acrobat reader generates its own PS code, rather than using the Windows PS drivers - probably not very surprising. The implication is that PS printing is going to be unlike non-PS printing.

I have noticed that there are a lot of configuration options for the PS generated, one thing they do is let you tune the printer memory usage of the PS produced.

If a printer is not PS then presumably the application is using standard Windows graphics calls. However (as I have found out the hard way) not all printer drivers support all of them. For example HP printers don't support all the bitmap plotting functions. Ideally one would get the latest driver off HP (fat chance?)

If the problem is non-PS printing, then firstly it is unlikely to affect a print shop. Second you could print to a PS file, and then use e.g. GhostScript to render that PS as a bitmap (or can it do HP PCL?).



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