One of my favorite bands to listen to is The Dexateens from Alabama. They just released a wonderful album titled "Lost and Found" that I've been singing along to in the car, hearing in my head when I'm at work, humming, etc... It's one of those albums that quickly worked its way into my head, and I'm happy it did.
The album is being released on the net to be downloaded - they ask for a donation in return. I encourage you to give it a listen and throw some money their way. You'll enjoy it.
22 March 2008
16 March 2008
Foxit -vs- Adobe
Encountered something weird the other day...
A client called me to come and address slow printing issues with two AutoCAD engineers. One engineer uses AutoCAD to make a drawing, and for archival purposes, prints the drawing to PDF. Another engineer needs to print this PDF to add to a reference binder for a presentation. While printing the PDFs to their OfficeJet (networked, 64 MB ram), they noticed that the size of the file ballooned from 2 MB to 250 MB in the queue. Then, ten minutes later, the page would start to print.
I understand that PCL printing will use the computer to decompress and render the file to the printer, versus postscript passing the job to the printer. Some forums suggested using postscript to print PDFs that are slow. But there's no postscript driver for this printer.
Adobe was current - v8 with all patches. On a whim, I decided to install my new favorite pdf reader, Foxit, to see whether there were performance gains.
Interestingly, the file size grew to only 50 MB from the 2 of the original file, and printed much faster. We tested with various files, multiple files being printed together, and other combinations and the performance remained much better than Adobe.
The more you know...
A client called me to come and address slow printing issues with two AutoCAD engineers. One engineer uses AutoCAD to make a drawing, and for archival purposes, prints the drawing to PDF. Another engineer needs to print this PDF to add to a reference binder for a presentation. While printing the PDFs to their OfficeJet (networked, 64 MB ram), they noticed that the size of the file ballooned from 2 MB to 250 MB in the queue. Then, ten minutes later, the page would start to print.
I understand that PCL printing will use the computer to decompress and render the file to the printer, versus postscript passing the job to the printer. Some forums suggested using postscript to print PDFs that are slow. But there's no postscript driver for this printer.
Adobe was current - v8 with all patches. On a whim, I decided to install my new favorite pdf reader, Foxit, to see whether there were performance gains.
Interestingly, the file size grew to only 50 MB from the 2 of the original file, and printed much faster. We tested with various files, multiple files being printed together, and other combinations and the performance remained much better than Adobe.
The more you know...
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