On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 16:21:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:43:24 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Its a balance. Pros and cons. With a PDF printer: > > Define a "PDF printer". What's that? > > 1/ A physical device (printer) with physical PDF interpreter on it (PDF > add-on card)? > > 2/ A physical device (printer) with logical PDF interpreter on it > (software that runs the convertion)? > > 3/ A software device (virtual printer) with logical PDF interpreter on it > (code that runs the convertion)? > > Because until now I have not seen a thing like "1/" and PostScript > printer modules are truly costly (it can take up to $200/300) :-)
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/1956699/review-hp-laserjet-cp4525-colour-printer And please don't complain about the price. You did ask and this is debian-user - not debian-market_place. :) > > On Lenny: PDF --> pdftops --> pstops --> pstopdf ----> Printer > > > > On Squeeze: PDF --> pdftopdf ----> Printer > > > > I don't think I would want to criticise the PostScript centred workflow > > solely on this. > > No, of course, me neither. > > But what I wouldn't like to see is a moving to PDF just because the sake > of moving to something more manageable without having into account > technical reasons but simplicity and force-joining (that is, "if CUPS - > owned by Apple- moves on PDF, linux will follow without questioning the > pros and cons"). I would like to see, now more than ever, less > "dependency" on CUPS (by "dependency" I mean here that it would be nice > to have different alternatives as powerful as CUPS). Moving to a PDF workflow was a considered decision based on technical considerations. A good deal of the CUPS printing system is now managed directly by Debian/Ubuntu and not by upstream. > > The heart of the matter could be seen as pdftopdf versus pstops. The > > advantages pdftopdf have been adequately covered - an earlier mail and > > points 2 to 5 above. Perhaps you could give us the advantages of pstops > > and what we are missing out on when it is not used. > > Well, I still can't speak on pdftopdf because is too new (there you have > a "con") and not present in my system while pstops is: > > sm01@stt008:~$ locate pstops > /etc/cups/oopstops.convs > /etc/cups/oopstops.types > /usr/lib/cups/filter/oopstops > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops > sm01@stt008:~$ locate pdftopdf > sm01@stt008:~$ If you are using Lenny, what do you expect! -- 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/20120727172605.GF6660@desktop
