Comment 16 for bug 1095498

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jimav (james-avera) wrote : Re: Printing PDFs with images is hideously slow

Now printing the googlemap.pdf test file causes an "out of memory" error on the printer after 20-30 seconds. That's an improvement over just silently doing nothing at all, I guess.

This is after doing:
  lpadmin -p HP3030_Postscript -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops # the real printer queue
  restart cups

I also tried
   pdf2ps -dLanguageLevel=2 googlemap.pdf test.ps
The resulting file begins with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 despite the -dLanguageLevel=2 option

I then tried
   lpr -oraw test.ps

and the the printer stalled for a looooooong time (at least 3 minutes) with the light blinking, then printed a completely blank page.

Again, this same googlemap.pdf prints in 2-3 seconds using gutenprint or pcl3 drivers.