On Thu 26 Jul 2012 at 13:03:32 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le mercredi 25 juillet 2012 à 21:34 +0100, Brian a écrit : > > On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 23:23:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > I was trying to point out that a PS printer is also a PDF printer. > > > > Are you using the word 'printer' to refer to the actual physical machine > > which does the printing or are you using it as a shorthand for 'printer > > queue' or 'print queue'? > > > I might have totally missed the point: I am by no way a printer* guru, > but I have yet to see someone do a cat file.ps > /dev/lpr0 (or > whatever) to print a file.
I'll take the 'whatever'. lp -d <print_queue> -o raw test.ps goes to the printer (the machine) without any filtering and gives a nice printout if the machine understands PostScript. lp -d <print_queue> -o raw test.pdf also does the same but the printout will not please you unless the machine has a PDF interpreter. >From this you might conclude a PS printer is not necessarily a PDF printer. There are two meanings in common usage attached to the word 'printer'. Using the second one may lead to a different conclusion, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120726221440.GA6660@desktop
