[cups.general] Print PDF direct to printer

[J. Bakshi]

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Johannes Meixner schrieb:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> unfortunately I have no helpful answer but more questions:
>>
>> On Nov 13 01:01 Christoph Litauer wrote (shortened):
>>     
>>> ... students ... print some PDF
>>>       
>> ...
>>     
>>> - the students print 2- or 4-up.
>>>       
>> ...
>>     
>>> I wonder wether it would be possible to get a (possibly generic) windows
>>> driver that doesn't convert the pdf documents to postscript or pcl.
>>> Instead it should modify the PDF code as to use some printer special
>>> features (input tray, duplex, color vs. greyscale etc.) and send pdf
>>> code to the cups server. Then it would be easy to configure cups to
>>> detect windows generated pdf code and send this code unmodified to the
>>> backend.
>>>       
>> I don't know about the current state of the PDF printing workflow.
>> In particular I don't know if the current PDF printing workflow
>> already suports printer specific features (input tray, duplex, ...)
>> natively in PDF (without conversion into PostScript before).
>>
>> Even if this prerequisite would be already fulfilled,
>> I don't know how your request could work with N-up printing?
>>
>> Is there a simple way to convert an arbitrary original PDF
>> in a 2-up or 4-up PDF?
>>     
>
> Well ... I'm not really an expert in windows printing questions ...
> I would assume that e.g. acrobat reader does the n-up formatting sending
> the result to the printer driver -- which should not recompute this code.
> Another idea would be a PJL command for n-up printing -- although I
> don't think any printer supports such a command ...
>
>   

Try foxit.  I have got success with foxit. Don't know the internals but
it work comparatively well than adobe.

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