[cups.general] "Native" PDF workflow through CUPS (save todisk) on OS X

[Michael Sweet]

On Sep 2, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Ben BW wrote:
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> Nice. So how does "vnd.cups-pdf" differ from "pdf"?

It is similar to the difference between vnd.cups-postscript and postscript - the vnd.cups-bla format is printer-ready and has any of the print options the printer can't handle applied to it.  In the case of PDF that means scaling and N-up.

> Can you point me to any documentation about all this? I haven't found much in the CUPS docs specifically about this issue, but I may have not been looking in the right place.
> How might I apply n-up to the pdf format...?

You re-render the pages to a new PDF...

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair