On Fri 11 Mar 2016 at 20:11:51 (+0100), jdd wrote: > Le 11/03/2016 19:39, David Wright a écrit : > > >It would seem odd to support PDF printing and be silent on the matter > >in the printer's literature, eg > >www.printerbase.co.uk/spec/pdf/brother-mfcj5720dw.pdf > > says > > Supporting: > > JPEG, BMP, PDF, TIFF, PNG > > > I read "PDF".
Yes, I too can read four strings "PDF". On page two they are under the heading "Colour Scanner". On page three, they are (ambiguously) under the section "PhotoCapture Centre" / "Scan to card". Lots of cheap all-in-one scanners will do this. Their output files appear to be a few lines of PDF wrapping an image, viz. %PDF-1.3 % [4 non-ASCII chars snipped] 3 0 obj << /Type /XObject /Subtype /Image /Width 2480 /Height 3504 /BitsPerComponent 1 /Length 54844 /ColorSpace /DeviceGray /Filter /CCITTFaxDecode /DecodeParms << /K -1 /Rows 3504 /Columns 2480 /BlackIs1 false >> >> stream > It seems than most printers now support natively pdf to be able to > print from card (without any interface) when they where supporting > ps before. You must live in a different price bracket from me. When I worked in a university, all the (Apple) laser printers had genuine PS interpreters inside. Nothing I've ever owned has. They all print _JPEGs_ directly because that's what ordinary people want to print: photographs, not office documents. The printers which I've used since, those that can print raw PDF files, can do that directly from a stick; they take paper from half a dozen trays and put the output in little collated stacks. They also stand on the floor! Cheers, David.