On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, H. Whitlock wrote:
> Thanks all,
> Yes, ghostscript came to mind. Quite honestly, I think my esteemed colleague
> is just trying to poke holes in this "xml stuff." However, he raised a
> valid question since most of our printers are not capable of printing
> straight from pdf.
It is not necessary to print straight from PDF. You can print via CUPS or
use Acrobat Reader or GhostScript to convert the PDF to PostScript or ...
In fact no printer can print "straight from PDF" - at one point there has
to be a software that converts the PDF code into a bitmap. Now some
printer vendors thought they were clever and integrated that software into
their printers - bad idea, because this built-in software is very hard to
upgrade, plus you have no influence whatsoever on what it does.
So you better rasterize in a place, where you have control. I use CUPS and
think everyone should :)
Ulrich
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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Softwareentwicklung
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