On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 17:46, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > I have a PostScript printer. I'd prefer not to have to run pdf2ps.
Unrelated to the question of PS output of ConTeXt: I have a PostScript printer (at home and in the office) as well, but my general impression has always been as if PDFs were printed "natively". That is: printer sometimes has problem and doesn't know how to print some complex vector graphics properly; it prints very fast; if I use a different driver (a "normal" instead of PostScript one) then some PDF files that would come out corrupted are printed properly etc. I may be biased since I'm using Mac that comes with a relatively good (native?) support for PDFs, but I remember the "problems" with corrupted PDFs on PS printer from Windows. It is true that I always print from GUI as opposed to simply copying the file to printer from command line ... but I'm still not sure if avoiding PDF for all costs makes sense or not. Expressed in other words: what usually happens when one sends PDF to PostScript printer? Does it print the document almost-natively or not? This page says: http://www.adobe.com/print/features/psvspdf/ "In order for a PDF file to be printed, however, the printer still needs to render the PDF objects to the page, and a PostScript printer is still the most reliable way to do this. Some PostScript printers understand not only the PostScript language, but also PDF files natively. And some printers, using a technology we call Extreme, actually convert all jobs into a PDF file prior to printing. (Agfa, Creo, Heidelberg, and Scitex have all announced print workflows based on Extreme.)" Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
