PDF printing from Windows

[Helge Blischke]

Seth Galitzer wrote:
> Alright, I've hit a serious problem and am hoping somebody can give me
> advice on how to deal with it.  On a fairly consistent basis, if a
> Windows client sends a PDF file to any CUPS queue, the CUPS server takes
> a huge performance hit (the larger the file, the greater the hit) and
> then eventually dies processing the file.  I've tweaked the settings so
> the the whole server or queue doesn't die, only the job.
> 
> My guess is that pdftops may be the culprit, but I don't know for sure.
>  I was hoping I could either a) force CUPS to use pdf2ps instead of
> pdftops or b) not do the conversion at all and just send the PDF file as
> is to the printer, since all of my printers are PS-enabled and should be
> able to also handle PDF natively.
> 
> We do a lot of PDF printing here, so this is a big deal.
> 
> Version info:
> CUPS: 1.3.5
> cups-windows: 6.0
> poppler: 0.6.1
> ghostscript (gpl): 8.61
> 
> I'll be happy to provide further information.  Any suggestions are
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> Seth
> 

Despite the "official" preferences for using the poppler utilities
I'd suggest to install the xpdf utilities (xpdf 3.02 at least)
and use the "alternate pdftops filter" (see the links on the CUPS web site).


Helge


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