🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: ch.comp.os.linux
Article #20873

Re: Drucken mit Staroffice 5.1 sehr langsam

#20873
From: Marc SCHAEFER
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00
14 lines
1115 bytes
Matthias Leisi <leisi@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Although my system is fairly powerful (PentiumII300, 256MByte RAM,
> PCL-LaserJet HP 6L), even printing simple LaTeX-documents is rather
> slow.

If it was postscript, LaTeX would be very fast (for texts).

As it's PCL, the printer driver (apsfilter) has to convert from postscript
to PCL first, and then send to the printer.

> printer. Is it possible to have Ghostscript outputs PCL, or am I
> missing something?

I would assume PCL is bitmap, where postscript is normally vectorial.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <7qj09c$94i$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <000227e9@accident.cpp.de> <7qes4i$hs6$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch> <37CB7BC0.309321C3@iname.com> <7qig2d$1l9$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch> <slrn7spqvm.a3.leisi@p12.leisi.dhs.org>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f4b73,cf8ed32704f526c3
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4b73,public
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Subject: Re: Drucken mit Staroffice 5.1 sehr langsam
Date: 1999/09/01
Message-ID: <7qj09c$94i$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch>
X-Deja-AN: 519694754
References: <000227e9@accident.cpp.de> <7qes4i$hs6$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch> <37CB7BC0.309321C3@iname.com> <7qig2d$1l9$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch> <slrn7spqvm.a3.leisi@p12.leisi.dhs.org>
Organization: ALPHANET NF -- Not for profit telecom research
Newsgroups: ch.comp.os.linux