[cups] PDF emulation

Alex Korobkin korobkin+cups at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 07:06:37 PDT 2018


On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 8:33 AM Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I have a fair idea of what "PostScript emulation" means in a
> vendor's literature when describing a printer's capabilities. Searching
> reveals that vendor's were loath to use what Adobe provided, so created
> their own versions to put on their devices.
>
> PCL emulation appears not to be documented, but a guess would be that
> vendors devised their own PCL interpreters to emulate HP's version.
>
> How about "PDF emulation"? What is this emulating?


It's emulating a PDF processing engine.


> Or does it simply mean "This printer can print a PDF"?


Yes.


> Maybe by converting to PostScript?
>

I don't know, but the documents that usually fail to be converted from PDF
to PS, will also fail to print when sent directly to a PDF-capable printer.


> And is PDF Direct the same thing?
>

I believe so.


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