[Printing-architecture] The Common Printing Dialog and PDF as standard print job format for Qt/KDE applications
Klaus Singvogel
kssingvo at suse.de
Wed Jun 4 08:41:00 PDT 2008
Hi,
sorry for delay, but our next product is upcoming, and sometimes time
is getting short at the moment at my side. :-)
I noticed that you couldn't fully dispel all my arguments, and
therefore I think you caugth the issues.
Still I've some comments to your last e-mail...
Thomas Zander wrote:
>
> The usage of references means that it you are right that it is possible to
> have the first page reference an object at the end of the document, but thats
> just not how pdf exporters are written.
But the PDF-1.7 reference from Adobe is written so:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference.pdf
It could be viewed only (and only with acroread) after the file was
completely downloaded.
[...]
> > But most OpenSource programs (like xpdf and clones) support only up to
> > PDF-1.4.
> >
> > Therefore I'm asking, will be a PDF limitation made for Linux printing?
>
> On screen PDF viewers are not really relevant here, the support of the
> standard in the printer is.
Sorry, but how is the printout on non-brandnew or non-PDF-able printers
done?
Isn't there a conversion to older PDF versions or to a printer
specific rasterization necessary?
Which tool do you think is used for doing so, if not xpdf?
> But more to the point, newer versions tend to only add multi-media versions
> (like 3D stuff) which obviously is not really relevant.
What about the JPEG2000 support (PDF-1.5)? I doubt that it is
multi-media related, and having doubts regarding "non relevant
feature" classification either.
What about the layering? I got bugzilla entries where the layering in
some newer PDF versions produced wrong printouts (different then in
viewer). I.e. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377878
A technique, which was introduced with PDF-1.6, I think.
> On another note; KDE and poppler are working hard on getting that support up;
> which is the obvious correct solution, again IMO.
I agree. But I heard about this rumor quiet some time now, and got
doubts that it will ever be done.
Regards,
Klaus.
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