[Info-vax] Direct print of PDF files on PDF compatible printers.

[chris]

On 03/01/22 23:05, gah4 wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 9:16:42 AM UTC-8, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>
>> Some of the Xerox laser printer models support direct print of PDF files.
>> Now, we uses DCPS för most of our printing needs. So, should I look for
>> a way to setup a DCPS queue that will be transparent and just let the
>> PDF file through (DCPS itself dosn't support PDF input)? Or is it
>> simpler to just setup a queue using the telnetsym, lpd_smb or such?
>
> As well as I know it, PDF is a subset of PS.
>
> Enough of a subset that there is an automated process to convert
> PDF into PS, and the program pdftops to do it.
>
> Are there printers that support PDF, but not PS?

One thing that might solve the problem long term would be to port
cups. Pretty foolproof and works out of the box on all the systems
and os's tried here. Just about every printer model supported as well.

You could argue that it's not the os's task to process pdf or any
other format, other than transparently passing the data. Pdf should be
handled by the pdf reader itself, as with most systems these days...

Chris