Printing Size Varies Widely

[Malinthas]

So I've got a bunch of documents created with Publisher
XP. On the hard drive, they're about 150KB-170KB. When
I open them and print them, however, they show up in the
spooler as anywhere from 1.43MB-4.4MB. I converted some
of them to Publisher 2000 format, and the file size
increased to around 500KB each on the hard disk, and when
printed, the spooler also showed each document as about
500KB.
I'm having a real problem printing these documents, as
I'm using a laser with 4MB of installed memory, and any
file larger than that just dies. Why are my XP files so
huge in the spooler, but so small on disk? Is there an
option or setting I'm missing? Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

So I've got a bunch of documents created with Publisher
XP. On the hard drive, they're about 150KB-170KB. When
I open them and print them, however, they show up in the
spooler as anywhere from 1.43MB-4.4MB. I converted some
of them to Publisher 2000 format, and the file size
increased to around 500KB each on the hard disk, and when
printed, the spooler also showed each document as about
500KB.
I'm having a real problem printing these documents, as
I'm using a laser with 4MB of installed memory, and any
file larger than that just dies. Why are my XP files so
huge in the spooler, but so small on disk? Is there an
option or setting I'm missing? Any ideas are appreciated.

To start with, be sure to look at this kb article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293534&Product=pub2002

And you do understand that Publisher 2002 stores images compressed, but
will spool uncompressed.

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

So I've got a bunch of documents created with Publisher
XP. On the hard drive, they're about 150KB-170KB. When
I open them and print them, however, they show up in the
spooler as anywhere from 1.43MB-4.4MB. I converted some
of them to Publisher 2000 format, and the file size
increased to around 500KB each on the hard disk, and when
printed, the spooler also showed each document as about
500KB.
I'm having a real problem printing these documents, as
I'm using a laser with 4MB of installed memory, and any
file larger than that just dies. Why are my XP files so
huge in the spooler, but so small on disk? Is there an
option or setting I'm missing? Any ideas are appreciated.

To start with, be sure to look at this kb article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293534&Product=pub2002

And you do understand that Publisher 2002 stores images compressed, but
will spool uncompressed.

--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Mac Townsend]

X-amount of ram in the printer does not mean you can only print files X big.
The spooler should be handling the passing of data to the printer in chunks
it can handle. If it is not, then you need to fix it. In printer properties,
you'll be able to turn on or off the spooler (the option is to print
directly to the printer...which is what you do not want to do). I'm not
familiar enough with XP to be sure precisely where in the proiperties this
is but look on the Advanced tab (if it's the same as W2k).

There may also be other settings peculiar to your printer driver that
influence how data is sent. If the above does not resolve the issue, take a
look at this.

 

[Mac Townsend]

X-amount of ram in the printer does not mean you can only print files X big.
The spooler should be handling the passing of data to the printer in chunks
it can handle. If it is not, then you need to fix it. In printer properties,
you'll be able to turn on or off the spooler (the option is to print
directly to the printer...which is what you do not want to do). I'm not
familiar enough with XP to be sure precisely where in the proiperties this
is but look on the Advanced tab (if it's the same as W2k).

There may also be other settings peculiar to your printer driver that
influence how data is sent. If the above does not resolve the issue, take a
look at this.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

X-amount of ram in the printer does not mean you can only print files X big.
The spooler should be handling the passing of data to the printer in chunks
it can handle. If it is not, then you need to fix it. In printer properties,
you'll be able to turn on or off the spooler (the option is to print
directly to the printer...which is what you do not want to do). I'm not
familiar enough with XP to be sure precisely where in the proiperties this
is but look on the Advanced tab (if it's the same as W2k).

There may also be other settings peculiar to your printer driver that
influence how data is sent. If the above does not resolve the issue, take a
look at this.

Mac, I don't recall in particular, but I remember choosing the wrong
option ties up your computer while printing. Maybe that was only with
older systems however. I just remember that printing was priority,
rendering the computer useless until printing was complete, or almost
complete.

 

[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

X-amount of ram in the printer does not mean you can only print files X big.
The spooler should be handling the passing of data to the printer in chunks
it can handle. If it is not, then you need to fix it. In printer properties,
you'll be able to turn on or off the spooler (the option is to print
directly to the printer...which is what you do not want to do). I'm not
familiar enough with XP to be sure precisely where in the proiperties this
is but look on the Advanced tab (if it's the same as W2k).

There may also be other settings peculiar to your printer driver that
influence how data is sent. If the above does not resolve the issue, take a
look at this.

Mac, I don't recall in particular, but I remember choosing the wrong
option ties up your computer while printing. Maybe that was only with
older systems however. I just remember that printing was priority,
rendering the computer useless until printing was complete, or almost
complete.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Change the options in your printer driver from 'Vector to Raster' or 'RAW to
EMF'.
Whichever way they are presently set, swap to the other and you should be
right.

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[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Change the options in your printer driver from 'Vector to Raster' or 'RAW to
EMF'.
Whichever way they are presently set, swap to the other and you should be
right.

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