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Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?Posted May 22, 2012 19:01 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Pros and Cons of PDF print queues? by bredelings Parent article: Announcing printerd
what is it that pdf can do that postscript cannot? I was under the impression that pdf was just a compressed and simplified postscript file.
the biggest overhead of converting between pdf and ps is the overhead of dealing with the compression.
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Pros and Cons of PDF print queues? Posted May 22, 2012 20:17 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]
> I was under the impression that pdf was just a compressed and simplified postscript file.
You're mistaken.
The drawing commands in a PDF file are a (non-Turing-complete) subset of PostScript, though, so the mistake is understandable.
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