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| 278342 | 2004-10-05 00:05:00 | Can anyone tell me why printing a PDF document using Adobe Reader 6 takes forever? About one minute or more per page? Using an HP 6P Laser printer. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 278343 | 2004-10-05 02:03:00 | "forever"? A minute per page? :D Not long ago, most people would have called that fast. I was given a LJ4 recently, and printing from Acrobat Reader 5 seems to take a minute for the first page, then successive pages bang out very quickly. But that's with basic text pages. If your stuff has a lot of pictures there's a lot of processing to produce the appropriate PCL code from the PDF. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 278344 | 2004-10-05 02:31:00 | And your printer probably charges by the hour as well? | godfather (25) | ||
| 278345 | 2004-10-05 02:34:00 | I think that the likely reason would be is that printing a PDF file it is printed as a "graphic" file rather that text. | d.murray (276) | ||
| 278346 | 2004-10-05 02:46:00 | I've had a simlar problem b4. Try checking in Adobe as well as Control Panel-->Printers to make sure that it has the correct paper size. Also, try experimenting with the "Paper Scaling" and "Auto-Rotate and Center" options. hope this helps. Mogwai |
mogwai (6235) | ||
| 278347 | 2004-10-05 02:56:00 | Yes Graham, our expectations rise with the technology. Having acknowledged that though, we've had this laser for 6 years (excellent machine) and it takes about 10sec a page using Word. Thanks GF, I hadn't thought of charging for the printer. Always looking for ways to add value ;) Murray - I suspect you are correct. Is it possible to cut and paste into Word and print from there? PDF is normally read-only so is that a barrier? Cheers Winston001 |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 278348 | 2004-10-05 03:05:00 | Winston, You need a PDF Editor, yours must be legall. I do not know of a "Free"one someone may be able to help. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278349 | 2004-10-05 03:16:00 | A recent computer magazine (APC July 2004) had a copy of SolidPDF 1.0 on the cover CD. Full version, only required a registration on a webpage to get the activation code. It strips a PDF to a fully formatted Word document. Provided that the PDF was not protected against any action, that is. Most are not protected to that extent. I am greatly surprised at the ability of this software to strip out most PDFs to editable Word documents. A very handy little program, and being free is even better. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 278350 | 2004-10-05 03:29:00 | Godfather, The totally free offer seems to have expired, There is a free 15 day trial which would solve winstons immediate problem. www.solidpdf.com Would it be possible to obtain a copy of the C/d. or the nessecary files on FTP perhaps D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278351 | 2004-10-05 03:48:00 | No you don't need a PDF editor at all. Highlight the text (using the text highlight tool on the toolbar) - copy it using the usual command and paste it (again using the usual command) into your favourite word processing program. Save (if you want to) and print |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
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