On 12/06/2010 06:45 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Konstantin Svist<fry.kun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 12/06/2010 06:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> However, it seems the trend nowadays for low cost desktop laser >>> printers is to move away from PCL and PostScript and into new >>> propietary page description languages.... probaby to save $10 in >>> royalties to HP or Adobe... just when advances in CPU power could give >>> us seamless PostScript with immediate printing (I still remember my >>> Texas Instruments microlaser with its internal 14mhz Motorola 68000 to >>> process postscript jobs... it had you looking at the blinking led and >>> "processing postscript" message for two minutes before spitting out >>> the printed page.... >> A bit off-topic: >> I still see PDFs take forever to print, while PS docs print right away. >> Re-saving them as .ps and printing that is a lot faster.. Any idea why >> that is still a problem these days? > Adobe Reader->CUPS->GhostScript (rasterizes postscript)->your > printerÂs PDL->printer. > > Back in the days of 16-bit Windows, nothing choosing beat "print to > encapsulated postscript" (.ps file) and then piping the file to > "lpt1:" (the parallel port). > > :-) > > FC Using Okular here, don't want AR anywhere near my system >:( -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
