Comment 17 for bug 977912

What we were talking about is, if you look in Acrobat Pro, in the dialogue for creating Postscript, it has a drop down menu titled "Transparency Flattener Preset" which has the options "High Resolution", "Medium Resoluiton" and "Low Resolution". Those options are totally independent of the resolution of the target printer.

It gives the user the option of "I want the best quality, however long it takes", "I want it as fast as possible, and damn the quality" or something in-between.

So, in a similar manner, it might be good to allow users to specify the "flattening resolution" (passed to Ghostscript) independently of the printer resolution (default behaviour would obviously be as it works now). You could even do something like "High" (current behaviour), "Medium" (flattener resolution == printer res / 2), "Low" (flattener res == printer res / 3), or "Custom" (allowing the user the specify their own flattener resolution).

As mentioned above, this is a *feature* suggestion/request for your consideration, not a bug report. It's just something that occurred to me might be useful for a future CUPS release.

Chris