[KLUG Members] Acrobat Reader Printing

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I'm running Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 and a Brother HL1440 printer. It's not
> > printing properly--each page is offset down about an inch, so the
> > bottoms are cut off. This doesn't happen when I print from another
> > program. It does happen with several different documents from different
> > sources. Any ideas?
> I rebooted and it's printing OK now. (Restarting just Acrobat didn't
> make a difference; there also seemed a problem with KGhostView's
> handling of the documents.)  

Probably in the process caused something to reread a config file.

> I wonder if I had overloaded the swap file
> and this caused the problem?

Nah,  if the system runs out of virtual memory it starts whacking
processes, nothing will go awry, things will just go 'away'.

>  The HDD seemed to be running like mad.
> Acrobat 7 seems a huge application, as is OO.o. Also had Evolution open.
> Too much for 256 MB RAM?  (I have no idea how big the swap file is,
> since it doesn't show as a separate partition.)

That is a little tight.  Acro7 is pretty big, as are some PDF files when
uncompressed,  and then you print which fires up GS which is pretty darn
big itself (GS is the postscript interpreter you depend on when you have
a non-PS printer;  your trading system resources for $$$ when you run a
low-end printer.  You can help this somewhat by nice'ing CUPS, which
Win32 basically does to its own print subsystem to get around the same
problem, but printing will be slower).

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