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Importing PDFs into OMEGA Composer/GSPplot sloooooooooow

Yvan

New Member
Sorry for the cross-post.. this should have gone here not in hardware:

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Hi all. I'm new here. This looks like a great resource!

Latest Omega 2.6.x
1 x EDGE
1 x EDGE2
2 x Envision375

I'm the software developer for my company and essentially I've written some software that spits out a PDF. The PDF is constructed in such a way that composer/gspplot can recognize the cut layer.

The problem is that the import filter is uselessly (is that a word?) slow. My pages are not insanely complex. For example, there are 45 "labels" on a foot of material each with a word framed by a border (the cut line). To import a page like that can take up to a minute or more. And hell, I'd like to import 15 feet at a time! Anything more than a foot or two and omega just enters and endless loop. I've tried importing 3-4 feet and letting it run overnight and it still wasn't able to process it.

As a workaround I'm doing one row of labels along the length and then am doing the repeats in composer but it's not ideal and it introduces too much room for error in the process. We print 1000 feet a day so there's no time to muck about with repeats.

I can rule out hardware/OS. We're talking new core 2 duo machines with 4GB of RAM. I've tried it on different machines, no difference.

Questions:
- any fix for this?
- if not is there documention, SDK, API etc on whatever language these machines talk
- any opinions on Cadlink Signlab as an alternative to OMEGA?
- are there any other alternatives e.g. windows driver?
 

animenick65

New Member
I use Omega 1.5 here all day. Gotta say it has some serious issues importing pdfs or anything else for that matter. Did you try different settings on the import screen? I.E. vinyl only or create cut shapes?
 

Mjozzie

New Member
Import PDF's all the time. If they were created then generated from a vector program (Corel, Illustrator etc) they come in beautiful and fast (like 10 seconds). Using Omega 2.61.
Try different settings? Do you get the same results if generated by Adobe writer? I've even used Primo PDF and get good results.
 
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