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Wolfgang Gill wrote:
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> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: shrike-list-bounces@(protected) [mailto:shrike-list-bounces@(protected)]
> On Behalf Of Steve Bergman
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:33 AM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)
> Subject: Re: Evolution extremely slow printing HTML email
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Thanks.
Just to be clear. Here is the pipeline as I understand it:
HTML -> evolution-mail -> POSTSCRIPT -> lpr -> cupsd -> print driver ->
PCL5 -> printer
During the 2 minutes, it is the evolution-mail process that is taking up
100% cpu and sending a huge file to lpr. Are you saying that my choice
of print driver affects the postscript that is generated by
evolution-mail? If so, I'm not understanding correctly how all this
works. I thought that the postscript generated was totally independent
of the spooler. Of course, it takes time for the spooler to generate
the PCL from the 22MB postscript file, but that's not quite so bad since
it's not tying up the user's desktop at that time. It seems to me that
the choice of printer driver could only affect the speed of translation
of postscript to PCL5, which occurs in the background.
What I really don't understand is how such a glaring bug has made it
through the entire life cycle of RH9 without being fixed. ANY html mail
triggers this problem. Are the RHEL 3.0 users going to have to live
with this for the next 2 years? Or do they get fixes that us
"freeloaders" don't? Or am I the only one who has ever had trouble with
this?
The "solution" I suppose is to upgrade to fedora core, but before I can
get approval for that, I have to demonstrate that Linux desktops would
be worth moving to, and this glaringly obvious problem is making it hard
for me to do that. Frankly, linux is looking pretty bad. If it were
just me and my machine, I'd just shrug it off. But this situation is
very frustrating.
-Steve
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