Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?

Posted May 22, 2012 19:15 UTC (Tue) by alexl (subscriber, #19068)
In reply to: Pros and Cons of PDF print queues? by job
Parent article: Announcing printerd

What about actual transparency (alpha channels), blending operations like "over", and transparency groups.

Also, the fact that its not a general programming language, so you can't write a raytracer in a PDF is kinda nice on the server side.

Also, I think there is some metadata storage in PDF so that you can tell the printer things about how to print the document, etc.