On 2/16/23 16:09, Bob McGowan wrote:
Depends on the content. recent activity in adding gfx content to it has expanded it quite a bit this file is now 1316 pages long on dead tree:On 2/16/23 12:01 PM, Brian wrote:On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:27:25 -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:On 2/16/23 11:14 AM, Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Feb 2023 at 11:52:21 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [1]tomas@tuxteam.de [2023-02-16 16:53:02] wrote: Just for kicks: have you tried sending a PS (or *gasp* PDF) file down that alley (e.g. with socat)? For That One Form in the Year this might be just sufficient... Hint: start with a small one :) I don't think "a small one" can be small enough in case it misfires. Instead, I usually make sure there's only 1 sheet of paper in the tray when I send the test (usually a sheet that I already used :-) Producind a PDF with the line "This is a test" in it is incredibly easy. Jumping through hoops is not needed. However, the PDF file created (I used LibreOffice 'cause its fast and easy) was 7,335 characters long, according to 'wc', which also reported 367 "words" and 139 "lines". Given that a standard US letter size sheet (8.5 by 11 inches) has 66 lines per page, that is just over 2 pages. So putting only one used sheet of paper in the printer would save a couple of sheets of paper. ;) Not much but why waste paper for a simple test?I have no desire or intention to investigate how LibreOffice deals with a single line text file converted to a PDF. This works to not waste paper when fileout.pdf is printed: /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 1 1 1 1 filein.txt > fileout.pdfThe point is that conversion to PDF results in a larger file than some might expect.
rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25471049 Feb 14 09:50 LinuxCNC_Documentation.pdfBut for whats in it gfx-wise today, just over 25 megabytes is really good compression.
And we don't know if the printer actually does understands PDF directly. If it does not, it would attempt to print the entire contents of the file as plain text. At least, this is how I understood the comment I was responding to.In the case of your command (which, by the way, requires some "esoteric" knowledge of CUPS), the resulting file, according to 'wc', is: 85 181 1020 fileout.pdfNot as big as the LibreOffice file, but still more than one page of output if printed as plain text.
And 99% of that "small" file is non-printed mode commands to the printer, telling it how to present that one line of text. 25+ years ago when ghostscript tried to be all, both ps v1.3 and v1.2 pdf at about v5.1, I'm the one who compiled it for the amiga's, even devising a couple bash scripts that made a simplex printer do duplex. I tried to wear out a xerox 1650-ro, the fastest daisy wheel ever, failed, it still works but no ribbons today.
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