On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:26:05 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Jul 2012 at 16:21:42 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:43:24 +0100, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Its a balance. Pros and cons. With a PDF printer: >> >> Define a "PDF printer". What's that?
(...) >> Because until now I have not seen a thing like "1/" and PostScript >> printer modules are truly costly (it can take up to $200/300) :-) > > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/1956699/review-hp-laserjet-cp4525-colour-printer Uh, what is this link for? :-? I'm not talking about "printers" but PostScript "modules" to enable Adobe PostScript 3 language emulation support and these modules are also very expensive. > And please don't complain about the price. You did ask and this is > debian-user - not debian-market_place. :) It's a rather costly addon device, of course I complain when is going to be "deprecated" in favor of softy-based PDF converstions ;-) Anyway, you did not respond to the question about what you consider to be a PDF printer. >> > I don't think I would want to criticise the PostScript centred >> > workflow solely on this. >> >> No, of course, me neither. >> >> But what I wouldn't like to see is a moving to PDF just because the >> sake of moving to something more manageable without having into account >> technical reasons but simplicity and force-joining (that is, "if CUPS - >> owned by Apple- moves on PDF, linux will follow without questioning the >> pros and cons"). I would like to see, now more than ever, less >> "dependency" on CUPS (by "dependency" I mean here that it would be nice >> to have different alternatives as powerful as CUPS). > > Moving to a PDF workflow was a considered decision based on technical > considerations. You mean the above mentioned "four easies"? >:-P > A good deal of the CUPS printing system is now managed directly by > Debian/Ubuntu and not by upstream. That's good but still dependant of the main CUPS development done by Apple. >> Well, I still can't speak on pdftopdf because is too new (there you >> have a "con") and not present in my system while pstops is: (...) > If you are using Lenny, what do you expect! I expect to use a solution/system/method (you can call it as you want) that has been tested harshly over the years and has been working okay. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jv0gjq$108$5...@dough.gmane.org
