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    Hello everyone,

    I'm running a Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.19) server to provide file and
print sharing to PC and Mac via LPD, Samba and Appletalk. It works, but
there's one inconvenience - large print jobs take a while to get tranferred
to the server before they start printing and sometimes they even threaten to
exhaust free disk space on the server (a while meaning - 15 minutes or more.
Something's screwed up with Acrobat Reader and some PDFs on Macs - it
creates 200Mb jobs out of 20 page documents and I can't fix it. The same PDF
from a PC makes a modest 6Mb job). Is there a way to make LPD send the job
to the printer as it's received? Or some other solution? Suggestions?

This implies that no, you cannot do this, at least when your data is going
through any sort of filter (which it almost certainly is).

Before you look for solutions on this side of things, try changing the
print/output options on your MAC PDF generator. Perhaps it's trying to use
1200x1200 DPI, for example, which will certainly inflate the size
tremendously. Another alternative is to convert your PDF to PS and print
the PS file. Under the hood this is probably what is happening, anyway.

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Quote:> This implies that no, you cannot do this, at least when your data is going
> through any sort of filter (which it almost certainly is).

Quote:> Before you look for solutions on this side of things, try changing the
> print/output options on your MAC PDF generator.

Quote:> Perhaps it's trying to use
> 1200x1200 DPI,

Quote:> tremendously. Another alternative is to convert your PDF to PS and print
> the PS file.

    Any ideas?