jang-h@cis.ohio-state.edu (Hyuk Soo Jang) (04/01/89)
Hi folks! If anybody has an idea about the average interpretation time of the postscript files either in Dataproduct or Apple laser printer, please sends me an e-mail. I will be really appreciated. The average interpretation time is not necessarily accurate but a rough figure is good enough. If it depends so much on the PS files, is it possible for me to get any rough relationships between PS file and interpreting time based on the ratio of text and graph portion of PS file? If you don't know the figure, any suggestions regarding possible sources from which I can get it welcome. Thanks! jang-h@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (04/04/89)
In article <41310@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> jang-h@cis.ohio-state.edu (Hyuk Soo Jang) writes: > >If anybody has an idea about the average interpretation time of the >postscript files either in Dataproduct or Apple laser printer, >please sends me an e-mail. I will be really appreciated. I'm curious to know what the average execution time of a C program is. Perhaps it can be estimated based on the size of its input file or its output file? In all seriousness, this can't feasibly be answered, since PostScript is a full programming language. However, I can give you some "expectations". Take a page with 3000 words of text, in 3-4 different fonts, with two moderately complex bits of line art. This page should take approximately 2-10 seconds of interpretation time, if the program is well-written, depending on the horsepower of the interpreter. If you're talking about an Apple LaserWriter Plus, 8-10 seconds is probably reasonable, if you're using a LaserWriter II NTX, 4-6 seconds is probably about right. Anything more than this can be chalked up to the inefficiencies of the driver. The "average application" will probably take about 10-20 seconds on comparable printers to print a page like the one I've described. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems Developer Tools & Strategies