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Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?Posted May 22, 2012 19:22 UTC (Tue) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)In reply to: Pros and Cons of PDF print queues? by job Parent article: Announcing printerd
The biggest items for me are:
- PDF can handle CJK and other large font sets without the hackish and painful workarounds required in PostSCript, which was designed assuming that an 8 bit character index was all you needed.
- PDF can handle alpha channel color. The PostScript work-around for the lack of alpha-channel support is to expand all the relevant areas into bitmaps with pre-merged colors rather than carrying forward overlapping vector-based elements with transparency. This works so poorly that I hesitate to even call it a work-around.
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