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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / December 2004Printing problems - insufficient memory
Hello. Here's the problem: I routinely get an "Insufficient Memory" message and failure to print when attempting to print PowerPoint files, even small ones (350K, for example). Here's my configuration: Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3.6 Application: PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, Version 11.1 Printer: HP2300 with 40M of memory The problem files print without error from a PC. Any help greatly appreciated. Ann  SignatureAnn Norcross Assistant to Dr. Lindsey NCSU Department of Chemistry Campus Box 8204 (919) 513-2966 voicemail (919) 513-2830 fax mailto:ann_norcross@ncsu.edu Hi Ann, What is the free space of the disk or volume that the presentation resides? You'll need more than 1 meg of free space on the volume to print the file (there are lots of temp files involved). If your presentation is on a floppy or small flash drive then the disk will fill up and you'll get an insufficient memory message. -Jim SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > Hello. Here's the problem: I routinely get an "Insufficient Memory" message > and failure to print when attempting to print PowerPoint files, even small [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Ann It's sitting on my desktop, and I have 60 Gig free space on the computer. Is there some other location I should check for free space? On 12/8/04 11:14 PM, in article O1s4OWa3EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl, "Jim Gordon MVP" <goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com> wrote: > Hi Ann, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> Ann Nope, that's plenty of free space. It's only this one presentation, right? Maybe there's something corrupt in the file - a picture perhaps? Can you print a certain range? Try printing the first half then the second half and see if either half prints by itself. You could also try deleting half the slides, saving the remainder with a new file name and then try printing. The idea here is to isolate the problem within the file. It could be a single slide or item on a single slide causing the problem. -Jim SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVP FAQ <http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;mvpfaqs> > It's sitting on my desktop, and I have 60 Gig free space on the computer. Is > there some other location I should check for free space? [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >>> >>>Ann No, it is not just one presentation. It happens fairly regularly. Both my Mac and my boss's Mac can't seem to print most of the PowerPoint files we receive. I've tried printing one page, but even that will not work. There seems to be some basic problem with Mac OS X and Powerpoint files. These files all print jut fine--and very fast--on a PC. Do you have any other thoughts on what I could do to find the problem? On 12/9/04 5:54 PM, in article e1$8$Hk3EHA.2248@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl, "Jim Gordon MVP" <goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com> wrote: > Nope, that's plenty of free space. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > -Jim > No, it is not just one presentation. It happens fairly regularly. Both my > Mac and my boss's Mac can't seem to print most of the PowerPoint files we [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> >> -Jim Did you try playing with the advance printer settings. I found that some printers did not like at all the Colorsync/color conversion in printer setting. Also, if you select to print detailed error report, did you find more clues? BAM On 12/13/04 4:09 PM, in article BDE3C39D.C203%bamsalegATSIGNslovaquie.org.NOSPAM@spam.info, "Benjamin Amsaleg" <bamsalegATSIGNslovaquie.org.NOSPAM@spam.info> wrote: > Did you try playing with the advance printer settings. I found that some > printers did not like at all the Colorsync/color conversion in printer [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > BAM ColorSync setting didn't do anyting. Here is the detailed printer error report: ERROR: limitcheck OFFENDING COMMAND: image STACK: Does that help (I don't know what it means :-( ). Thanks. Ann >> No, it is not just one presentation. It happens fairly regularly. Both my >> Mac and my boss's Mac can't seem to print most of the PowerPoint files we [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >>> >>> -Jim > ERROR: limitcheck > OFFENDING COMMAND: image > > STACK: > > Does that help (I don't know what it means :-( ). limitcheck errors usually mean that some limit internal to PostScript has been exceeded. That and the price of a cup of Starbuck's will get you a cup of Starbuck's but it doesn't help much to fix the printing problem. ;-) We used to get these from some apps when a gradient filled shape (circles usually) had been reduced to some tiny size. One piece of clipart from Freelance was guaranteed to whack the printer every time, in fact. The grad fill had maybe 128 or 256 steps but was so tiny that it was asking the printer to shove all those color changes into an area just a few pixels wide. Printer throws (hands) up, and over it'd go. www.prepressure.com has a useful database of PS error messages. These two apply here: http://www.prepressure.com/ps/dbase/limitcheck.htm and http://www.prepressure.com/ps/dbase/image.htm ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ On 12/16/04 11:38 PM, in article VA.00000ed5.09e2ca4f@localhost.com, "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote: Thanks; I'll look at these links. Of course, the basic problem remains. Why can PCs handle this with no difficulty at all, but Macs choke? >> ERROR: limitcheck >> OFFENDING COMMAND: image [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > On 12/16/04 11:38 PM, in article VA.00000ed5.09e2ca4f@localhost.com, "Steve > Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote: > > Thanks; I'll look at these links. Of course, the basic problem remains. Why > can PCs handle this with no difficulty at all, but Macs choke? Revenge, I guess. Macs can handle other stuff while PCs choke. ;-) > >> ERROR: limitcheck > >> OFFENDING COMMAND: image [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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