Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> writes: > Greetings, David Masterson! > >>> Acrobat -> printer driver -> printer >>> >>> Without the step in the middle, usually, garbage is expected; >>> only exception is when sending a Postscript file to a Postscript printer. > >> Rephrasing the question -- where in that chain does the translation of >> PDF to something the printer can print occur? > > Between Acrobat Reader and printer driver and inside printer driver itself. > Acrobat Reader transform PDF into something printer-digestible (WMF f.e.), > printer driver convert it into actual printer instructions.
Hmmm. And how does this differ from what happens in Cygwin when GV sends PDF to a printer via LPR? >> I'm pretty sure that this printer (Dell A10) is not a Postscript printer, so >> the PDF is not being translated into PS. > > That has no connection. The document COULD be translated into PS before > sending it to printer driver, if the driver support that input format. > As I said, there could be more than one translation occuring. Hmmm. Still something I am not getting: 1. GV under Cygwin can display the PDF fine. That's what GV is meant to do -- be a viewer for PDF/PS. 2. GV has a print capability. By default, it (seems to) uses LPR for the printout mechanism. Therefore, if #2 ever works, then there must be an assumption about how it works that works for most (all?) printers. What is that assumption? >> As I understand it, the job of the printer driver >> is to forward the data sent by the application to the printer >> (ie. manage the hardware). Therefore, the translation of PDF to >> something that the printer can print either occurs in the application >> (ie. Acrobat or GV) or in the printer (unlikely). What am I missing? > > See above. Your question has no simple answer. Undoubtedly. Under Adobe, the print capability works whereas, under GV, it doesn't seem to work. I still do not have a means of determining why. > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 01.07.2014, <20:05> -- David Masterson Programmer At Large -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple