On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 2:40 AM Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 02:24:37PM +0930, Tim via users wrote:
>On Thu, 2022-06-23 at 13:15 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>> I have a 10+ year old Ricoh 3500N color laser that claims to
>> accept PDF files. It is on my lan as host "R3500", a postscript
>> printer and connects using CUPS and an IPP socket.
>>
>> I never considered whether the cups drivers were converting my
>> PDF files to PS before transmitting.
PostScript is a full programming language, so it is much harder to provide
security for PostScript: https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/31/postscript_bug/,
PDF can embed scripts, but those are more of an issue for viewers
than low-end printers.
PDF has better support for the Unicode fonts commonly used for
non-Western language documents (for me, using English, but with
colleagues from all over, names of people and places are
problematic for PostScript producing applications).
George N. White III
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