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Announcing printerd

Announcing printerd

Posted May 24, 2012 18:35 UTC (Thu) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: Announcing printerd by pkern
Parent article: Announcing printerd

> the only plus is that it can start printing when it completed the image of the first page.

If there isn't any serious way to generate and stream a PDF document one page at a time, PDF would seem to be a uniquely unsuitable format for the printing of large documents not already composed and linearized in PDF format in any kind of a hurry. Perhaps SVG Print would be a better long term alternative for that reason alone.


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