[cups] PDF emulation

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 September 2018 10:06:37 Alex Korobkin wrote:

> 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.
>
It should at least specify which pdf standard it adheres to. There are 
many but 1.3 will cover quite a bit of its core functions.  And thats a 
decade+ old already,

> > 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.
>
> > --
> > brian.
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