[cups.development] [RFE] STR #2897: Adding CUPS filters for using PDF as standard print job format

[Till Kamppeter]

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On the Printing Summit in Atlanta in spring 2006 we agreed on replacing
PostScript by PDF as standard print job format.

Now, two years later, we have the needed CUPS filters. The OpenPrinting
Japan workgroup has written the filters

- imagetopdf
- pdftopdf
- pdftoraster

The filter

- pstopdf

is a trivial script. It is Ghostscript-based and similar to pstoraster and
pstopxl.

The filters

- texttopdf
- pdftoijs

were developed as a GSoC project and are ready now, too.

All filters are in the SVN on

http://sourceforge.jp/projects/opfc/

They are libpoppler-based like the pdftops filter of CUPS 1.4.

I think they should get made a part of CUPS and maintained in the CUPS
package as they serve for the same purpose as the filters which come
already with CUPS and will make a complete PDF workflow with PDF-emitting
aapplications and also with PDF printers.

This will also fix STR #1595

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1595

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2897
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