Comment 10 for bug 600764

Many thanks to all the experts for the highly interesting discussion.
From the user perspective, I would suggest to take the importance of feature-rich PDF generation seriously. Not just corporations, also more and more individuals switch to paperless environments. They need seamless but also feature-rich PDF support, beyond just setting some global image resolution. E.g. different resolution for color/grayscale/black&white images, thresholds for downsampling, options for converting to monochrome or reducing color palette, jpg compression strength, font embedding, PDF/A, page rotation, merging of documents, bookmark auto-generation. Will application-specific PDF export features replace a hi-quality, generic PDF printer? I doubt. So indeed it's probably a feature request, be it for ubuntu native printing or for cups-pdf in ubuntu. For the average user these options should be available in an ui (I tried to understand the ghostscript manpages and also looked into ppd files, /user/lib/cups/pstopdf etc but it's just too hard). But at least Ubuntu shouldn't "invalidate" cups-pdf!
Thank you!