[reportlab-users] ReporLab Printing

[Robin Becker]

Once the PDF is made then all resources are statically inside the pdf. Images 
can be large and possible could cause the printer some work to render. If the 
images are jpeg then they are rendered natively by PDF for  other images we 
normally have to convert to RGB planes and then compress those to a stream for 
use in PDF.
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Robin Becker

On 12/01/2016 14:51, Nazir, Modassar wrote:
> Robin,
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> Thank you for your response and I will check out the link for this question as well. It didn’t make sense to me either why it would slow down. I am making the PDF on disk and then manually (human interface) sending it to the printer.
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> One of the things I am concerned about is if how I am generating the PDF. So I am downloading a picture from the internet, adding text onto each page of the picture (they are multipage tiffs), saving the picture and adding the picture to the PDF "story" list then looping through a list of pictures that is on an excel sheet. The building the PDF outside of the loop. I am wondering if there's an artifact from that structure that would lend to this?
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> Modassar
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