Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!sura.net!haven!ncifcrf!fcs260c2!toms From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Question: How do I print a large PS file? Message-ID: <2076@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 25 Feb 91 15:30:55 GMT References: <1991Feb22.160550@sunburn.Viewlogic.COM> Sender: news@ncifcrf.gov Organization: NCI Supercomputer Facility, Frederick, MD Lines: 34 In article <1991Feb22.160550@sunburn.Viewlogic.COM> seg2@sunburn.Viewlogic.COM (Seg Consultant) writes: >I have a large (> 1 Meg.) postscript file that I would like to print on >an Apple Laserwriter IINT. It comes back with the message -- "lpr: : >copy file is too large" -- and prints out only part (1 Meg?) of the file. >In terms of pages it prints out 52 of 58. Is there an easy (or otherwise) >way of printing the remaining pages? Or a way to break-up the file into >smaller-sized files? The -s option of lpr creates a symbolic link to the file. This may solve your problem. It may also be faster because lpr wouldn't need to copy the file. Here's a bit of our (unix) man page for lpr: -s Create a symbolic link from the spool area to the data files rather than trying to copy them (so large files can be printed). This means the data files should not be modified or removed until they have been printed. This option can be used to avoid truncating files larger than the maximum given in the mx capability of the printcap(5) entry. -s only prevents copies of local files from being made. Jobs from remote hosts are copied any- way. -s only works with named data files; if the lpr command is at the end of a pipeline, the data is copied to the spool. >Thanks, >_shankar_ Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov