From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
To: Stephane Ascoet <Stephane.Ascoet@ac-orleans-tours.fr>
Cc: printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] New PDF file format in CUPS
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:01:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C80AB6B.10202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C809328.300@ac-orleans-tours.fr>
On 09/03/2010 08:18 AM, Stephane Ascoet wrote:
>
> Hi, I've just learned about the replacement of PS by PDF in the store file language. I wonder if this wouldn't cause unecessary
> conversions if the printer is Postscript. The application send the job in PS, CUPS store it in PDF and send it in PS to the printer?
> Why having not chosen Postscript level 3 for storage?
>
Note that the PS->PDF->PS conversion is only temporary. The applications
are supposed to output PDF in the future. Many already do, as all KDE
applications, some GTK applications (like evince) and from the next
release on also OpenOffice.org.
The advantage of using PDF is mainly the smaller files, the possibility
to reliably tell the pages apart (for printing selected pages, N-up,
reverse order, ...), and the support for color management. PostScript,
even level 3, does not give these advantages.
See also
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdfasstandardprintjobformat
especially the Introduction and the section 'Related bugs and feature
requests'.
Till
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-03 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 6:18 [Printing-architecture] New PDF file format in CUPS Stephane Ascoet
2010-09-03 8:01 ` Till Kamppeter [this message]
2010-09-03 8:14 ` Stephane Ascoet
2010-09-03 8:24 ` Till Kamppeter
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