HELP!!! Corel Designer Printing Woes... Memory Problem?

[Ahmun]

Hi all...

I have been trying to use Designer to draw a Construction Logistics site plan. This document contains at least 600 instances of a symbol, and many other lines and drawings and graphics...

It takes at least 7-10 minutes just to open. And about as long to send the job to the print queue. I'm printing to an HP Designjet 7550CM Plotter. The last print job I sent to the plotter was sent 6pm Wednesday night. I left.. came back in the morning... and it was still spooling in the print queue (8:45am the next day)

I have a Dell Optiplex GX 260 with:

Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Processor
512 MB DDR Memory
ATI Radeon 7500 PCI DualMonitor Card (64mb ram?? not sure off hand)
80gb HD 7200rpm


I have contacted some other co-workers who have recommened I convert the symbols to objects, as the plotter memory can't handle them as symbols. But that takes a lot of time to convert, as I can only convert 1 symbol at a time!


The client is expecting to see it tomorrow... and my boss wants to see a rough draft sometime today (June 24, 2004, PST)


any ideas how I can tweak with the drawing to make it print????


Another thing I've tried is printing to and ADOBE PDF document first... which took 45 min... then trying to print that document to the plotter. Currently it is frozen at the print dialog... and the Task Manager says Adobe is hogging 99% of CPU time and.... o! it finally unfroze...


I'm gonna press print and see what happens...


Earniehttp://www.graphicdesignforum.com/emoticons/frusty.gif

[Keyare]

I don't know anything about Designer - but with Corel products you usually have an option to save as a bitmap. In the short term, export your file as a .jpg (300 dpi) and print that for your presentation.

With the amount of time it's taking to creat a .pdf it sounds like there is waaaaay to much information for either your printer or plotter or spool settings.

[Ahmun]

hm... a bitmap, huh?

I'll give that a try if my computer ever unlocks itself...