-----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Bergman Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:34 PM To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) Subject: Re: Evolution extremely slow printing HTML email Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Steve Bergman > Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:33 AM > To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) > Subject: Re: Evolution extremely slow printing HTML email > Thanks. Just to be clear. Here is the pipeline as I understand it: HTML -> evolution-mail -> POSTSCRIPT -> lpr -> cupsd -> print driver -> PCL5 -> printer During the 2 minutes, it is the evolution-mail process that is taking up 100% cpu and sending a huge file to lpr. Are you saying that my choice of print driver affects the postscript that is generated by evolution-mail? If so, I'm not understanding correctly how all this works. I thought that the postscript generated was totally independent of the spooler. Of course, it takes time for the spooler to generate the PCL from the 22MB postscript file, but that's not quite so bad since it's not tying up the user's desktop at that time. It seems to me that the choice of printer driver could only affect the speed of translation of postscript to PCL5, which occurs in the background. What I really don't understand is how such a glaring bug has made it through the entire life cycle of RH9 without being fixed. ANY html mail triggers this problem. Are the RHEL 3.0 users going to have to live with this for the next 2 years? Or do they get fixes that us "freeloaders" don't? Or am I the only one who has ever had trouble with this? The "solution" I suppose is to upgrade to fedora core, but before I can get approval for that, I have to demonstrate that Linux desktops would be worth moving to, and this glaringly obvious problem is making it hard for me to do that. Frankly, linux is looking pretty bad. If it were just me and my machine, I'd just shrug it off. But this situation is very frustrating. -Steve [snip] I think that you will have pretty much the same problem with FC1. I run it at home. And what I mentioned in my first reply was related to FC1. Here at the office I run RH9 with all the updates. And the situation is pretty much the same. HTML being mostly graphics, it will take a while to generate the PS format. Trying to print even a small picture takes a while. Where as I mentioned before, the Turbo Print (And it works with the CUPS interface)drivers seem to handle it much faster. (And from memory, your printer is supported) I use it here at the office too where I can, to speed up printing. The other alternative would be to buy the print drivers from "Easy Software Products" who are the authors of CUPS. Since I'm unable to buy it here in Australia, I can't vouch for the print speed of these drivers. This is one of the main areas of Linux, which frustrates me. If it's not that the page doesn't print out properly, or it's the drivers being way too slow. Although I'm not going to give up yet. And yet, I don't know what else to suggest. I'm still working on this issue myself. Wolf ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
