Scalable RIP Quick start
This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin Core but not Harlequin MultiRIP
To invoke HHR as a Scalable RIP simply add the -nrips X and -m M
command-line options when invoking clrip, where X is the number of farm RIPs to launch, and M is the amount of memory in MiB to be used among all the farm RIP instances. As an example, on Microsoft Windows, the following command RIPs a job called ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf using two farm RIPs.
cmd.exe
C:\apps\HHR_SDK_dev> bin\clrip -m 2048 -c CMYKComposite300dpi -nrips 2 C:\T\ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf
Initial RIP virtual memory: 5 MiB (4944 KiB) used, 507 MiB (519168 KiB) commit limit, 1024 MiB (1048576 KiB) reserved
**** PostScript asserts enabled ****
Ripping file %C%T/ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf as PDF.
Starting Job On Fri Sep 7 11:36:19 2018
Title: Not Available
Subject: Not Available Author: John Smith
Creator: Microsoft® Word 2016 Producer: Microsoft® Word 2016 CreationDate: D:20170818114113+01'00'
ModDate: D:20170818114113+01'00'
Trapped: Not Available
Scalable RIP Accepted Job 2 On Fri Sep 7 11:36:19 2018 File: %C%T/ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf
Config: %configps%CMYKComposite300dpi
Priority: 0
Scalable RIP Metadata for Job 2 File: %C%T/ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf Pages: 31
Chunk Size: 1
Scalable RIP Starting Job 2 On Fri Sep 7 11:36:19 2018
Total time: 0.106 seconds (00:00:00.106)
Job Completed: ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 3 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 9 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 15 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 21 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 27 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 31 pages of 31...
Scalable RIP Job 2 Schedule time: 22.498 seconds (00:00:22.498)
Scalable RIP Job 2 Active time: 6.689 seconds (00:00:06.689)
Scalable RIP Job 2 Elapsed time: 6.689 seconds (00:00:06.689) Scalable RIP Job 2 Completed: %C%T/ThirtyOnePages-01.pdf
Peak process working set memory: 43008 KiB used Peak process RIP memory: 15208 KiB used
C:\apps\HHR_SDK_dev>
In the above example you will see 31 .tif files appear in the C:\T directory representing each page.
We have typically found that the best performance for PDF files is achieved using a chunk size of 1 (see Command-line options for Scalable RIP and as many farm RIPs as cores on the machine. There should be significant performance improvements as the number of farm RIPs increases to an optimum number.