Pros and Cons of PDF print queues?

Posted May 22, 2012 20:17 UTC (Tue) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: Pros and Cons of PDF print queues? by dlang
Parent article: Announcing printerd

> 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.