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From: miller@cam.nist.gov (Bruce R. Miller)
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Subject: Re: Can't print large PS file derived from a dvi file..
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Date: 19 Jul 90 16:56:38 GMT
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In article <2518@nosc.NOSC.MIL>, Yuval Fisher writes: 
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help me with a horribly annoying problem 
> I am having printing out a postscript file on an apple laserwriter.
> I convert a dvi file to postscript using dvi2ps on a sun. The
> original TeX has PS figures included, ...
> 
> I guess this means I am running out of memory in the laserprinter, 
> somehow. 
> 
> Has anyone encountered this type of problem? Any suggestions ? 
> 

Sure have. Symptom is printer prints till it gets stuffed, then no
more output for that job.  It seems ANY size pure DVI->PS works, but as
soon as there's some ps included, only small files work.
I also have access to another printer (QMS) which has more memory: it
will handle larger/more complex jobs, but eventually the effect is the
same!

I suppose there are two `solution's

  1) put more memory in the printer. I also suppose this is also a case
of printing complexity increasing to (over)fill available memory!

  2) Probably the structure of the included postscript has a major
effect. But, I'm neither an expert postscript programmer, nor do I
really want to get into the guts of the postscript generator of my
graphics system.

The only other workaround I've found is to print the pages in sections. Worst
case was a long paper with lots of hairy illustrations: I had to print
each page with a figure separately! and of course each run of pages
without figures!

bruce