[Digikam-devel] Problem printing from digikam 0.9.4

[Rainer Krienke]

Hello,

recently i purchased a new printer, a HP 2605 DN (with 192MB RAM). It has PCL6 
and the way HP calls it a "Postscript 3 emulation". I installed it using cups 
(and HPLIP) as a regular Postscript printer. Basically this printer works 
fine.

A problem seems to be printing photos from digikam as well as from gwenview 
(KDE3). If I try to print a 10Mpix photo from digikams imageeditor in 
landscape to a A4 page, so the photo will finally cover most of this A4 page, 
then the printer starts, saying "processing print job" but even after a 
complete *hour* there is no output and the print is still saying its 
processing the printjob.  The cups spoolfile has a size of 27Mbytes in this 
case.

The strange thing is, if I print from gwenview's KDE4 version or if I print 
from gimp using the same output settings the spoolfile is only about 4Mbytes 
and printing works just fine. After say 1 minute the print is finnished.

The large spoolfile generated by digikam is basically OK I can look at it 
using ghostview, however even ghostview will show only "line" after line of 
this photo on the screen and my system (P4 3 GHz) goes to 100% CPU load for 
the next 2 minutes. So it seems the postscript generated is very complicated 
in contrast to the postscript generated by gwenview (KDE4).

Because I am still using KDE3 I would like ask if anybody knows a way to work 
around this problem so I can print directly from digikam.

Thanks for hints
Rainer