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 printer´s 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 -- 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
