Printing FH 11.0.2 & OS X 10.3.4 VERY SLOW

[klaus69]

Hi

First we upgraded OS X to version 10.3.4. Freehand 10 runnig.
Freehand 10 on 10.3 was extremly slow on screen.
Then we decided to upgrade to Freehand MX 11.0.2. Now if we turn on
anti-aliasing within preferences, working with MX is ok on screen BUT printing
to a Postscript printer is really horror. Even simple pages need minutes. The
strange thing is if I push the preview button inside printer dialog it is 5
times faster then spooling the printjob. If I try to print from Preview.app
then the printer spoolfile is about fivefold as big as if I print directly from
freehand. So I guess that Freehand is doing some optimizations. Does anybody
has an idea what I can do to optimize this situation. I mean some more complex
documents need 30 minutes and more to spool (not to print). While Freehand is
spooling working with it is impossible.

Thank you in advance

Klaus

[Judy Arndt]

Klaus,

How complex is the document? Does it contain very large TIFF images or many
FHMX Raster Effects? Does it contain many nested groups of complex vector
objects?

Judy Arndt


klaus69 wrote:

> First we upgraded OS X to version 10.3.4. Freehand 10 runnig. Freehand 10 on
> 10.3 was extremly slow on screen. Then we decided to upgrade to Freehand MX
> 11.0.2. Now if we turn on anti-aliasing within preferences, working with MX is
> ok on screen BUT printing to a Postscript printer is really horror. Even
> simple pages need minutes.