Re: Anyone know the CUPS system well?

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:42

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Jon Green wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> I suspect that the problem is well known
>>
>> http://www.cups.org/str.php?L280+P0+S0+C0+I0+E0+M20+Qtransparent
> 
> Bear in mind that that report is more than five years old.  It might be
> worth your while to find something a little more ... contemporary.
> 
>> Sadly CUPS uses gs to do the conversion from pdf to postcript. If you 
>> feed it a PDF rather than a ps type file.
> 
> Yeah, but PDF _is_ PostScript, with a bit of wrapping around it.  PDF to
> PS conversion is little more than unpackaging, with a nod to security.
> It's not a rendering stage.
> 
Well there you are wrong

> If it's still feeding the unpackaged PS to the printer, for the printer
> to do the rendering, the problem is *still* with the printer!
> 

And there as well.

I was able to also reproduce it with pdftops.No printer involved at all,



> Jon

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