[cups.general] Problem printing pdf document
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Sep 8 02:56:18 PDT 2006
On Sep 8, 2006, at 5:48 , Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>> On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:41 , Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
>>> Only acrobat is working.
>>> But this is not a usefull way in cups.
>>
>> Er? I created a "pdf2ps" script which runs "acroread -toPostScript"
>> with appropriate arguments (once upon a time, such a script came with
>> acroread...). It's been working fine here.
>>
> Which acrobat are you using?
> How fast is the speed of this script.
One of the 7.x releases. I haven't worried about speed; it's fast
enough for our purposes, especially given that "fast but doesn't
actually work" isn't acceptable under any circumstances here, and
compared to the (ancient, overworked, underpowered) old spooler
anything under a few minutes is in the noise.
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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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