[cups.general] Can lpr image a PDF?

[Helge Blischke]

John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I have a Xerox Phaser 7400 connected by ethernet to my Fedora 11
> x86_64 computer. I have been told by an Adobe employee (who says he has
> one in his office) that this printer does not have the Adobe PDF print
> engine. Yet, if I send a PDF file to it with lpr from the command line
> the file images perfectly.
> 
> Either lpr is imaging the PDF file, or the Adobe person is wrong. I am
> curious which it is.

Well, provided the printer is equipped with an (optional) hard drive, it can 
print PDF. But that does not imply it has the Adobe PDF print engine.
AFAIK, it has an PDF interpreter that converts PDF to PostScript.

Helge