[WEB4LIB] PDF Files that will not Print

[Shawn J.P. West [ Kiratoy ]]

I have found it to be a memory issue most of the time on windows machines,
If the file has too many vector images this will often choke the printer.

Printing the pages one by-one will help, but cases where the file wont
print at all increasing the base memory on the computer helps 64 ---> 128
in our configurations.


On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, giz womack wrote:

-:Hi All,
-:
-:Lately we have had more and more users unable to print certain .pdf
-:files from our online resources. The problem is sporadic, and does not
-:affect all .pdf files. We have tried printing the files in question to
-:other printers with no luck, these .pdf files are not unusually large,
-:and when we try a different .pdf file it has no trouble printing. We
-:have the latest driver on both our lab machines and laptops....I have
-:checked the adobe site for info, done some internet searches, I'm just
-:not sure how to procede with diagnosing and fixing this problem. Any
-:pearls of wisdom out there?
-:
-:Thanks,
-:Giz
-:--
-:H. David "Giz" Womack
-:http://www.wfu.edu/~womack
-:ITC Specialist III
-:Z. Smith Reynolds Library
-:Wake Forest University
-:PO Box 7777
-:Winston-Salem, NC 27109
-:Office-336.758.4314
-:Fax-336.758.8831
-:
-:ZSR Computer Training Materials
-:http://www.wfu.edu/Library/ITC/training/
-:
-:Student ThinkPad Training Request Form
-:http://www.wfu.edu/Library/cgi-bin/training.cgi
-:---------------------------------------------------
-:
-:"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than
-:any invention in human history--with the possible
-:exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-:
-:--Mitch Ratliffe, "Technology Review"
-:
-:
-:

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