[Okular-devel] [Bug 286825] Okular should generate PDFs when printing instead of GhostScript

[ismail donmez ( cartman )]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286825


ismail ( cartman ) donmez <ismail at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from ismail ( cartman ) donmez <ismail kde org>  2011-11-20 19:49:17 ---
Don't know if its valid or not but here is the upstream bug report:

The standard format for print jobs has changed from PostScript to PDF:

http://www.openprinting.org/
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/pdf_as_standard_print_job_format

Most applications are switched over from sending PostScript to sending PDF and
CUPS in Debian and Ubuntu turns every incoming job to PDF, does page management
operations (N-up, selected pages, ...) on a PDF data stream and then rasterizes
the PDF data directly into the printer's native language.

While investigating bug 891074 I have found out that Okular is one of the few
programs which still sends PostScript. To make the CUPS workflow more straight
and to fulfill the new standard it should send PDF (and AFAIK the other KDE
programs send PDF). In addition, the most displayed file format is PDF and
Okular could simply pass through the PDF input files when printing, making the
printing even faster and more reliable.

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