Slow printing

No big deal, but peculiar:

I am told that PDF is an intermediate form
for printing with OS X.

If I print from AppleWorks, Word X, Excel,
almost anything, it goes fairly quickly.

If I click Preview with Acrobat already running,
the page images appear almost immediately.

But if I print the resulting image from Acrobat,
it takes ages (comparatively).

???

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In article <qRicnRGc7ZeHoR->,
Wes Groleau <> wrote:

> No big deal, but peculiar:
>
> I am told that PDF is an intermediate form
> for printing with OS X.
>
> If I print from AppleWorks, Word X, Excel,
> almost anything, it goes fairly quickly.
>
> If I click Preview with Acrobat already running,
> the page images appear almost immediately.
>
> But if I print the resulting image from Acrobat,
> it takes ages (comparatively).

That's because the code generated by AppleWorks, Word, and Excel is
probably pure postscript after it's translated from whatever document
you're printing.

I think PDF files are translated into high-density bitmap images before
their sent to the printer. This may be a design feature or bug in
Acrobat. I've had similar problems with some label-printing
packages--they take forever to print on MacOS X (e.g. 12 minutes) but
the same file only takes 1 minute in 9.2.

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In article <qRicnRGc7ZeHoR->,
Wes Groleau <> wrote:

> No big deal, but peculiar:
>
> I am told that PDF is an intermediate form
> for printing with OS X.
>
> If I print from AppleWorks, Word X, Excel,
> almost anything, it goes fairly quickly.
>
> If I click Preview with Acrobat already running,
> the page images appear almost immediately.
>
> But if I print the resulting image from Acrobat,
> it takes ages (comparatively).

I've had the same thing happen, but only with inkjet printers. Preview
prints normally, but if I print through Acrobat, I may as well go cook
dinner (including going to the store!).

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AF