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

[Albert Astals Cid]

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





--- Comment #7 from Albert Astals Cid <tsdgeos terra es>  2011-11-21 22:47:29 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > I don't see why this is a bug, moving to wish.
> 
> Not following official standard IMHO is a bug.

It's not a bug because:
 a) "Printing to PDF as default" won't be the default until CUPS 1.6 that is
still not shipped in any distro, just that Ubuntu decided to go on their way
and enable it already
 b) We need to support other printing systems other than cups
 c) Printing to PDF instead of PS won't have any visible benefit to the user,
other than maybe a somehow shorter printing time since there won't be one
conversion less in the chain

> 
> > Postscript printing should still
> > be supported by Ubuntu,
> 
> It is.

No it is not, i've spoke with Till this morning and he has agreed there is a
problem printing some Postcript files and it is something they have to fix,
actually he told me he has a fix for it already and will be pushed shortly
fixing your problem printing in Okular

> 
> > and if it is not, it is their problem they decided to
> > move away from the default printing
> 
> The new default is to sent jobs to CUPS as PDFs.

Yes, the issue as I said is we support more printing systems than CUPS

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