From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 10 06:54:59 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E81106567C for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:54:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (static-212-162-182-244.cust.tele2.se [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1298FC1A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B78E10EEE9; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fg7BbK+cH1ui; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.eskk.nu (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C75710EE72; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.165.130.152 (SquirrelMail authenticated user leslie) by www.eskk.nu with HTTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:15 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20355.5705.678848.307759@wombat.mininet> References: <20355.5705.678848.307759@wombat.mininet> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:48:15 +0200 From: "Leslie Jensen" To: markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups slow when printing from firefox X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:55:00 -0000 > Hi all, > > I'm struggling with a speed issue when trying to print stuff from > firefox (10.0.2,1). I've set up cups (meta package 1.5.2) on my box > which uses a Lexmark E360dn printer via ethernet. The printer has a > postscript emulation which is set as the default (as opposed to > PCL). I've used a PPD file from openprinting.org which claims that the > printer is 100% supported. Printing works fine in general with all > sorts of text and images, including PDF and LibreOffice and > whatnot. However, trying to print maps from maps.google.de sends one > CPU to 100% for a couple of minutes. Printing the same map from a > Debian box takes a couple of seconds. I can print the map to a file, > and print that file with lpr which also takes just a few seconds. > > While printing from firefox directly, I noticed a process gsc owned by > cups which causes most of the CPU load. I take this as an indication > that the postscript output from firefox is incorrectly rasterized on > my box, instead of sending the postscript data directly to the > printer. I did not make any changes to the default config files except > for adding the printer through the localhost:631 interface. > > Is there anything else that I need to configure, either on the firefox > or the cups end, to make printing maps faster? > > regards > Markus > > -- > Markus Hoenicka > http://www.mhoenicka.de > AQ score 38 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hi Markus. If you do a search in the archives you'll see that some of us have printing problems with Firefox. Some even suspect that printing in Firefox is broken. I myself has not been able to solve my specific printing problems which include both Firefox but also Libre office. I'm running Win7 in Virtualbox in order to fix my printing :-( Regards /Leslie