[cups.general] Can lpr image a PDF?

[Michael Sweet]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:43 PM, 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.


CUPS converts the incoming PDF file to the appropriate format. See:

    http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/overview.html

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair