[XeTeX] Identity-H encoding ExternalLocation xdvipdfmx

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.02.2008 um 09:19 schrieb Volker Jordan:

> The problem with printing through cups is, that the document has to be
> fully spooled befor the printer starts to print and the documents are
> very large (50.000 pages and more).


What does this mean? Your printer receives the data on an USB stick,  
or, since this is too modern, on a CD? If your printer is connected  
in some way to your computer, then printer and computer talk to each  
other over this medium and the printer is able to tell that it can't  
afford receiving further data, and the computer, vice-versa, won't  
send anything when it hasn't already arrived in the queue.

An option you have, when converting XeTeX's XDV output to PDF via  
xdvipdfmx, is to set the version of PDF, -d 3 would produce an output  
that looks like PDF 1.3 (I don't know whether this decimal really  
changes the set of PDF components in the output or it's just  
cosmetics for the first few bytes of the PDF output file).

Xpdf comes with pdf2ps. This utility can produce Level 1, Level 2,  
Level 3, and other specialised PS output. (http://www.foolabs.com/ 
xpdf/) And in case CUPS is used to transfer a print job to a printer,  
either the CUPS software can be corrected (the company behind it  
accepts bug reports) or its filters can be adjusted.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

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