Ubuntu
cups-pdf package

  1. Bug #600764
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 600764

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote : Re: [Bug 600764] Re: Customized settings of cups-pdf are ignored

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> In Ubuntu we have a PDF-based printing workflow. All jobs arriving at
> CUPS are turned to PDF by filters which ship with the CUPS package.
> As the cups-pdf backend already receives PDF this way it does
> not call Ghostscript any more but simply passes the incoming PDF through
> into the output file.

It therefore appears that the PDF workflow patch actually cripples
CUPS-PDF rather than enhance it. Given this, I'm beginning to wonder
if it should simply be reverted, because it actually removes
capabilities from CUPS-PDF.