Adobe PS-driver generates huge jobs (1MB doc -> 400MB ps)

[Michael Sweet]

Christoph Peus wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> printing to a HP Deskjet 6127 with Foomatic/hpijs and Adobe's ps-driver 
> (ppd downloaded from www.linuxprinting.org) takes *very* long or simply 
> does not work, because the driver generates *huge* ps-files.
> Example: a MS-Word document of 1MB, (one page with eight small pictures) 
>  gets translated into a ps-document of >400MB. Is this normal? I can't 
> believe it...
> (Windows XP, Office XP SP2)
> 
> I guess that the driver generates a single ps command for every pixel of 
> the included pictures instead of including them as raw binary data into 
> the ps output. How to change this?

I doubt that it is doing that; more than likely the print data is
hex or base-85 encoded, so it will be slightly larger than raw
binary.

That said, if you are printing a document with embedded JPEG images,
chances are that the 1MB document size does not reflect the
uncompressed image sizes...

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