I am printing out long documents, some over 100 pages. I have an in-house application where I generate the PS file based on data we have. The user chooses criteria and then we get a print out. If the document is smaller then it prints the entire document fine. If I get over a certain number of pages, 35-40 maybe, printing consistently stops in the same spot. If I modify the ps file to be shorter, then the file prints fine. If I do a simple loop to print 100 pages it prints fine. Sometimes I get an offending command, which looks like it cut off part of the command, like 'how' instead of 'show'. If I modify my program to send 10 page groups instead of all at once then it prints fine. It seems like it's filling a buffer or something first? Any ideas? Here's a link to the file. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2430447/SPL0333842
Your file distilled into a complete pdf booklet (107 pages) after I removed the printer escape characters that had been prepended and appended.
In looking at the PostScript code the structure of the code layout is part of the problem:
the occurrance of "-2 vmreclaim" several times per page, followed by a redefinition of the user procedures could be cleaned up so that the user procedures are defined once in the prolog of the document and the "-2 vmreclaim" statements are removed altogether. "-2 vmreclaim" turns off the automatic garbage collection, normally this would be done for interactive or monitoring functions, but in this context I don't know why that would be of benefit.
After commenting out the "-2 vmreclaim" like "%% -2 vmreclaim" throughout the document, distiller rendered the program much, much faster, and I would guess that your printer will render it completely and faster as well.
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