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From: montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Lpr Out of Memory with Interleaf
Keywords: Software
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Date: 15 Jun 90 12:23:46 GMT
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| From: tdatirv!pa1@uunet.uu.net
|
| When I created a document in Interleaf using graphics and imported raster
| images, the postscript file generated was almost 3MB for one page and
| took the Apple LaserWriter II 18 minutes to process. The same page in
| FrameMaker took up about 400k and less than 5 minutes to print.

I second this observation. It goes for non-raster stuff as well, like
relatively simple line drawings and slides for talks (large fonts, small
amount of text).  Interleaf-generated PostScript files are huge.  For one,
I don't think Interleaf uses the built-in LaserWriter fonts, so they
download everything.  That's an immediate disaster. Is somebody from
Interleaf listening? Is there any plan to fix this bug any time soon? A
Mac Plus using Microsoft Works printing to a LaserWriter Plus prints
faster than my SPARCstation using Interleaf printing to a LaserWriter
IINTX.

Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)