Bugs item #979164, was opened at 2004-06-24 14:47
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Category: Printing
Group: Win32
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: freezes (outputting 380 MB print file from 28 kB SVG...)
Initial Comment:
I have a 28kB file that isn't terribly complex. Printing it
to a laser printer is fine and quick under 98 or XP. But
when I go to print to our Universal Laser Systems laser
engraver, under 98 it freezes (print dialog stuck at 4k),
and under XP it behaves similarly, except that the print
dialog says "(however much) of 380 MB" and moves very
slowly. The same engraver works fine under any
operating system from CorelDRAW 9 or 12,
DrawingBoard, and even, IIRC, AutoCAD. So to get
these things I made in Inkscape engraved, I had to go
to CorelDRAW 12 (only one that opens SVG) on XP
(CD12 doesn't support 98), import SVG (doesn't work
perfectly), fix it, save it in CorelDRAW 9 format, open it
in CD9 on our 98 box, fix it again, and print it.
CorelDRAW is a piece of crud compared to Inkscape. I
can't even edit text without problems, nor will it properly
right-align anything I type in. Inkscape does these
perfectly. Please help.
I tried 0.39 under 98 too and it did the same thing.
Thanks, and keep up the awesome work on your product!
Kev
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>Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2005-06-29 18:44
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Just tried...nope, it's only 2KB, looks normal (I guess) inside.
We're leaving for about ten days, fyi, so I'll have to
continue whatever else you want me to try when I get back.
Thanks,
Kev
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Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak)
Date: 2005-06-29 18:29
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Can you print to the file? Does it run amok too? If so can
you attach here the first several Kb of the print file?
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2005-06-29 10:44
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It doesn't seem to have a standard resolution. The closest
thing I could find to that was PPI, which is laser pulses
per inch, and that was set to 500.
I tried again this morning just to see what the
circumstances were that allowed me to get the doc to the
printer last time, but I couldn't get it to go. I created a
new Inkscape doc, 32 inches by 18 inches (the platform size)
and drew a 1 inch circle, turned off the fill, set the
stroke to .01 inch black, and printed, this time watching
the queue. It started sending 549 MB, so even though it was
still going up through 80 MB, I cancelled, since our printer
only has 16 MB and likes to keep everything in memory before
printing AFAIK.
Maybe I could send you the driver by e-mail or something.
I'm not sure if they'd have a beef with me posting it here
or not.
Kev
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Comment By: olivier ripoll (oliv)
Date: 2005-06-29 03:37
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the driver is PCL6 (60.3.14.2)
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Comment By: Richard Hughes (cyreve)
Date: 2005-06-28 15:42
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Do you know which printer driver you're using? HP offer three
different ones for that model: PCL 5.1, PCL 6 and
PostScript. The About tab of the printer properties sheet
should give you this information.
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Comment By: olivier ripoll (oliv)
Date: 2005-06-28 03:43
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cyreve: No, I am not trying thin strokes. Actually, even
printing an empty page results in the very same effect: tens
of MiB in the spool , nothing printed and inkscape freezing
until I cancel the print.
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Comment By: Richard Hughes (cyreve)
Date: 2005-06-27 18:37
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I am interested in Kevin's comment that he's using a very thin
stroke, particularly since the lj4200 is a 1200dpi printer
whereas the ij2200 is only 300dpi. Are you also trying to print
very thin strokes Olivier? Could there perhaps be a specific
width at which it fails? Regardless, could you upload a file
that fails somewhere please, or e-mail it to me (cyreve at
users.sourceforge)?
And finally, a question for Kevin: Universal Laser Systems
don't seem to have a link where I can download their drivers,
so can I ask you what resolution it reports to Windows? You
can find it near the bottom of the General page of the printer's
properties sheet.
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Comment By: olivier ripoll (oliv)
Date: 2005-06-27 10:49
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cyreve: I do not have permissions to update the driver. I am
printing through a server, and this server is used by 200
people, so simple users cannot play with its setup. I have
asked the admins if they agreed to update, but I do not know
if they will accept (usually, admins are reluctant to change
a working set-up because one single software of one single
user has problems).
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2005-06-27 09:53
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Okay, we've since upgraded our laser engraver computer to an
XP box, so we're now for sure on the latest driver, because
we had to get a new one for it to work. Using Inkscape .41,
I got two files to go to the printer, but on neither of them
did it pick anything up to actually laser (I press start on
the machine, and it beeps saying it's done.) The file was
just a 1-inch-diameter circle, with .01 px stroke. The
third time I changed it to .01 inch stroke, and printed, and
it didn't make it to the printer--the print dialog box
showed 89.1mb/89.1mb had been sent, but it didn't make it
over. It didn't freeze either though. So it's improving. :)
Kev
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Comment By: Richard Hughes (cyreve)
Date: 2005-06-26 15:28
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oliv: Since your printer is a tad more common than Kevin's, I
went to the HP site and downloaded the latest PCL6 drivers
for it. I don't have an lj4200, of course, but I would expect that
using the print to file option would allow me to experience the
same problem. It didn't.
Could you try both upgrading your printer driver and, naturally,
using the current version of inkscape please? Also try using
the print to file checkbox, just in case it's a really weird bug.
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2004-12-17 10:37
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Okay, I was able to try 0.40 today on the Win98 box
attached to the X660. With the circletest file, upon printing,
the printer icon appeared in the tray, so I double-clicked it to
watch, and before the window came up, I got a blue screen,
fatal exception 0e, with Windows as the title, but pressing
enter had me back with an open, empty printer box and
Inkscape was no longer running. I haven't found out yet
where our XP laptop is floating around here, so I haven't tried
it in that yet.
Sorry for the delay.
I should be around for a week or two more for any additional
testing.
Lack
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Comment By: olivier ripoll (oliv)
Date: 2004-10-28 04:23
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I am the reporter of the duplicate bug (998672). I would
like to add another data point:
We have just purchased a new inkjet colour printer (HP
business inkjet 2600) and printing on this one works. I am
using a 0.40 CVS build dating a a month ago or so.
But printing the same image (a simple square) on our black
and white laserjet 4200 results in this freezing of inkscape
a a huge file in the printer spooling.
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Comment By: Kees Cook (nemies)
Date: 2004-10-28 00:12
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Actually... it seems from reading the other bug report that
there is a difference between direct printing and PS file
export. It's the direct printing that breaks. Very strange.
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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2004-10-27 20:27
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As I said...not any time particularly soon (unless someone
else who's having this would like to) but I would need help for
then anyway--where does the file appear? I only knew it
was so big through the Printers dialog, but I didn't actually
get a glimpse of a file anywhere. Is it a temp file in
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP or something?
Thanks,
Kev
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Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak)
Date: 2004-10-27 17:32
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So can you submit the beginning of that 380 Mb file?
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Comment By: John Cliff (johncliff)
Date: 2004-10-27 17:30
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increased priority as this is affecting other people on normal
printers too.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?
func=detail&aid=998672&group_id=93438&atid=604306
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2004-10-24 10:04
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This has been on my todo list for a long time and may be a bit
longer yet. :|
Sorry, I'm not sure how I didn't attach that circle test the first
time, and now I can't find it. All it was was a plain circle
though. The main thing was the combination of Inkscape and the
laser engraver. Any other combination of software and hardware
seemed to work fine.
Unfortunately, I can't do anything with the laser engraver remotely,
and I'm away from work during the school year. Next time I'm home
for a weekend and can get out to work, I'll try it with the latest
build and report back. That may be a few weeks from now, though,
with midterms and such going on right now. Again, my apologies.
Thanks for your patience.
Actually, wait a minute...I see two copies of that circle test file
just above the submit button. ???
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Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak)
Date: 2004-10-24 02:45
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Kevin, can you please attach more info as described below?
We want to resolve this bug one way or the other.
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Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak)
Date: 2004-09-13 19:53
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I cannot reproduce this either. The sample svg generates
small and correct postscript (though I did not actually
print it, but I suppose this should not matter). I would
appreciate if the submitter could test a current build. If
the pronblem persits, please also attach the beginning of
the generated file (not the entire 380 Mb of course, about
200 Kb will be enough).
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Comment By: Kees Cook (nemies)
Date: 2004-07-10 05:29
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I'm having problems reproducing this bug. All the prints
I've generated are small and display correctly. Do you have
other examples?
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2004-07-07 09:13
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Here's a simple test circle that does the same thing. I just
noticed that trying to open the printers window just after
printing results in a fatal exception, then it shows the
window, but there are no print jobs in it, and it doesn't get to
the printer. (Under 98--didn't get a chance to try with the
XP laptop to see the file size.)
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Comment By: Kevin Field (lackofknack)
Date: 2004-07-07 09:12
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Here's a simple test circle that does the same thing. I just
noticed that trying to open the printers window just after
printing results in a fatal exception, then it shows the
window, but there are no print jobs in it, and it doesn't get to
the printer. (Under 98--didn't get a chance to try with the
XP laptop to see the file size.)
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Comment By: bulia byak (buliabyak)
Date: 2004-07-04 20:53
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Attaching the file that gave you problems would help us
locate the problem.
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