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1. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
MW Design Aug 2, 2013 2:22 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)Twitch, can you export each document to PDF successfully? If so, can that feed an entire PDF to the printer?
Each page has about 2 megs of vector (AI), same or not. Times X number of pages, that might be a lot of vector paths for the printer to draw.
Mike
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2. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
P Spier Aug 2, 2013 2:23 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)Export to PDF and print that....
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3. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 2:29 PM (in response to P Spier)No joy there. I tried that first thing after it failed to print from InDesign. It's not a printer issue. It's a program/computer problem. I wouldn't get an "Out of memory" error from the machine, and even if I did, it's given me that error after only one page and then it crashes.
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4. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
P Spier Aug 2, 2013 2:32 PM (in response to MW Design)Try rebooting.
How much free space is on the hard drive?
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5. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 2:36 PM (in response to P Spier)371mb on the HD. I have a 2nd hard drive but I don't think ID can use multiple HD's as swap drives
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6. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 2:41 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)The weird thing is, it will run 10 pages at a time pretty good with no issues. Now, it won't run 1 without getting an Out of Memory error. Just rebooted InDesign. See if that goes away.
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7. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 2:42 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)Well, that worked. Still shouldn't happen.
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8. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
P Spier Aug 2, 2013 2:46 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)You just don't have enough free hard drive space. As you say, ID doesn't use the second drive, and the installed RAM over 4 GB is irrelevant too, for versions before CC becasue they're only 32-bit.
371 mb isn't enough free space for the OS, I suspect, either, and your're likely to see a lot more of this type of error unless you do something about it.
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9. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 2:49 PM (in response to P Spier)I thought that might be an issue. Still don't understand why it will be running 10 at a time just fine and then start gurgling and freaking out about printing one page.
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10. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
P Spier Aug 2, 2013 3:01 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)The fact that rebooting worked says that the swap space is slowly getting eaten up and not released, I guess.
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11. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 3:01 PM (in response to P Spier)Well, I didn't reboot the whole computer. Just InDesign.
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12. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
TwitchOSX Aug 2, 2013 3:14 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)*Unable to display the PDF on the page*
*CRASH*
Me: "Thanks"
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13. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
MW Design Aug 2, 2013 3:58 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)I just ran a sample on my laptop.
AI file, duplicated, is 284k. Image is roughly 200k. The CSV has 2054 records, and the merged document with 10 per page is 250 megabytes. PDF is just under 50 megs.
This laptop has only 4 gigs memory but has a lot of free disk space. It took a good amount of time to do the merge, a bit longer to create the PDF-X1a PDF.
Mike
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14. Re: Data merge with football tickets. Printing causes out of memory errors. Can only print 10 at a time!
P Spier Aug 2, 2013 6:04 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)TwitchOSX wrote:
*Unable to display the PDF on the page*
*CRASH*
Me: "Thanks"
What does that mean? Did it make the PDF?




