On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:23:14 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 25 iul 12, 21:18:19, Brian wrote:
>> On Wed 25 Jul 2012 at 18:02:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> > On Lu, 23 iul 12, 18:05:45, Brian wrote:
>> > >
>> > > All the major applications on the popular DEs are now geared up to
>> > > output in PDF format when printing.
>> >
>> > PDF is kind of a subset of PostScript ;)
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf#PostScript
>>
>> An interesting perspective but how does that connect with the assertion
>> that
>>
>> > . . . Linux applications generally output Postscript when printing. ?
>>
>> I'll rephrase what I said previously:
>>
>> No major application on the popular DEs outputs PostScript when
>> printing.
>
> I was trying to point out that a PS printer is also a PDF printer.
And better than PDF, I'd say.
PostScript specification is by far a more professionally-oriented
language that PDF format (aside comment: last time I checked you could
embed a 3D video animation on a PDF sheet and all kind of
"dynamicallities"... geez!).
Sadly, I can guess the why of this moving¹ :-(
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Note: While PostScript is currently the defacto-standard print job file
format/language for UNIX-based applications, it is slowly being phased
out in favor of Adobe's Portable Document Format ("PDF") which offers
many advantages over PostScript. *Mac OS X uses PDF as the primary print
job file format* and Linux is making the transition. Both PostScript and
PDF are complex formats, and we highly recommend using high-level
toolkits whenever possible to create your print jobs.
***
Hint: *bolded text* is mine.
¹http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.5/spec-postscript.html
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