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Subject:RE: ZIP efficiency and file size, Doc vs. PDF From:"Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:14:40 -0700
Keith Cronin wondered: But why, then, does a 500K PDF take WAYYYY longer to print than a 1.5MB
Word doc? I've always found this to be the case, particularly if the PDF
has many graphics, regardless of file size.
Sean Brierley responded: Printer drivers. The HP 5000 I have at home and the Canons around here
don't discriminate against PDF. An aging Lexmark we have does.
my $0.02: If your printer has a PostScript driver it will print PDFs faster because PS is a PDF's native language -- no conversion required.
John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
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