Slow Printing

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nschafer
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Slow Printing

Post by nschafer » Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:15 pm

I am printing a PDF document that was created with GdPicture. The document is a 2 page PDF and is 303KB on the hard drive. When I print it from GdViewer it takes a very long time to print and send 8.62 MB to the printer. I've tries playing with the quality setting but this has not changed anything. When I print the PDF from Acrobat Reader it sends only 680 KB to the printer. It is not just this document that does this, all documents show a similar trend.

Here's the process I am using:
Create PDF from images using GdPicture
Open new PDF in GdViewer
Print PDF from GdViewer

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GdViewer1.PrintSetShowPrintingProgress(false);
GdViewer1.PrintSetQuality(PrintQuality.PrintQualityLowResolution);
GdViewer1.PrintSetDocumentName("Document Viewer");
GdViewer1.DisplayFromFile(filename);
GdViewer1.PrintDialog();
Thanks for your help,

Neal.

nschafer
Posts: 28
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:05 pm
Location: Florida, USA

Re: Slow Printing

Post by nschafer » Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:18 pm

I modified my code to use MutiPage Tiff instead of PDF and it prints MUCH faster. I'm ok with this format, but I would still like to know why the PDF files have the stated problem. There will undoubtedly be times when I need to print PDFs

Neal.

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