Heather Francis Posted October 5, 2001 Share Posted October 5, 2001 When I try to print a page from a drawing that has multiple layers or complicated symbols, my printer takes excruciating amounts of time to print. The file sizes are only 4M-8M, but my printer sees them as 72M files. It's a fairly new printer (3 months old), and this only happens in VWorks. Has anyone else run into this? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted October 7, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 7, 2001 Do these files have transparent bitmaps in them? Quote Link to comment
Heather Francis Posted October 16, 2001 Author Share Posted October 16, 2001 Not always, right now I'm working with a drawing that has 6 layers and it's happening, and last week I worked on a file with bitmap textures, but the drawing was only 1.2M. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted October 16, 2001 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 16, 2001 Heather, I'd recommend emailing a copy of a particularly bad example to bugsubmit@nemetschek.net along with this description. This will allow us to test the file and see what's happening. Quote Link to comment
MikeN Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 what make/model of printer are you using? Quote Link to comment
VulcanGrip Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 Hi, I use V9 on a Apple G4 with Epson Stylus 1520. It works very well, cept a few times it did 'crash ' and didnt print certain layers. I reinstalled the entire program and all is well since. I do see an ocassional file curruption where the file will not resize in the print set-up. So I make frequent back-ups! Also, sometimes the program will have a 'text crash' where all text dissapears? a simple relaunch/reboot takes care of that, thank goodness. Peace Quote Link to comment
Heather Francis Posted November 19, 2001 Author Share Posted November 19, 2001 I thought the problem had magically disappeared, but no, it still vexes me. I'm using a Canon S600, and the file I'm currently working on is about 9.5M. I will try to email a copy to TS. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 20, 2001 Share Posted November 20, 2001 Heather, You will encounter large print files if you are:working on Windows and printing to a non-PostScript printer and using pattern fills. Windows (98/ME in particular) does not support pattern fills very well. In VW9 on Windows there is an option in the print dialog to print patterns at onscreen resolution. Make sure this is not checked. If you are using 8.5 I would recommend that you only use patterns where you need them. HTH, Quote Link to comment
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