Jpg's in Rtf print very slow

rbuser

I'm printing postcards with the Avery 5389 template using an Infopower
rtf field. The print is very slow up to several minutes to print 10
pages. Calculating Page 1 takes 40 second and then printing takes
forever. Is there a way to speed this up? The jpeg on the postcard is
a 1" square and the rest is plain text.

Bob Parrish

digitalmetaphors

What is the speed difference if you remove the rtf control and use separate
dbImage and dbMemo components?


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,

In the current design that is not an option, as the user designs the
postcard content in the Infopower rtf component and that is printed in
by Report Builder using a ppdbRichText. The jpg is only 91k (1" sq
picture) and if I remove it the printing speed is okay. The content of
the ppdbRichedit does not change once it is created as this is the
back of the postcard. When I print the front (address side) it print
at normal speed. I have the pipeline set to print only the current
record. Is there an easier way to do this? It works great until I add
jpeg's!! TIA

Bob

rbuser

Jim,

Just as a test I did what you suggested and it did not change the
printing speed.

Bob

digitalmetaphors

I was curious if removing the rtf engine would have helped speed things up,
looks like it didn't. From my understanding, 91kb is pretty big for a 1
inch square jpg. I'd try to reduce the size of the jpgs if at all possible.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Jim,

Okay I got the jpg down to 2k and it did speed things up considerably
(more than 50%). I used my own graphics program to reduce the size of
the file, trying to get the users to do that will be another problem.
It also seems that the more copies that I print the longer Report
Builder takes to render the report. This could be a problem as we will
be printing several hundred at a time.

Bob

digitalmetaphors

There is a public property on the Report.PrinterSetup object called
DelegateCopies. Set this to true. This will cause the pages for the current
copy to be sent to the printer. When it is false(default) all of the pages
are generated for all copies, and they are sent to the printer at that time.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks Jim, that did it!! Much faster.