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Well, Quark XPress generates its own PostScript using the Windows PostScript driver simply as a conduit to put the resultant PostScript either into a file or onto the print queue. Is 321 megabytes excessive for a 3.9 megabyte source file? Maybe or maybe not. If you are referencing a large number of fonts or have many graphics (and perhaps highly compressed but high-resolution JPEG images amongst them) placed by reference into that document, then 321 megabytes might not really be all that big.

You didn't describe exactly how you are producing the PostScript files (i.e., are you printing to the �Acrobat Distiller� or �Adobe PDF� PostScript printer driver instance for Acrobat 5 or 6 respectively or to some other driver instance). However, if the PostScript driver is set to �print directly to printer� and not to one of the �spool� options (even if just printing �to file�), PostScript generation times will be dramatically longer.

If this doesn't solve your problem you might want to contact Quark Technical Support given that their application is actually generating the PostScript in question.

- Dov