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The take-away is that PDF should not be an input to anything.
by p0nce 7y ago
The take-away is that PDF should not be an input to anything.
- mikestew 7y agoExcept eyeballs and printers, and printers are just an eyeball abstraction.
- hnick 7y agoYou'd hope so, but some printers run some very finicky software with less horsepower than your desktop machine so can fall over on complex PDF structures. I preferred Postscript!
- 72deluxe 7y agoHow does PCL cope with PDFs? Do you know if some conversion happens beforehand?
- hnick 7y agoNot sure if I'm misunderstanding but PCL is another page description language like PS, some printers can use both depending on the driver. Most of our Xerox printers spoke Postscript natively, these days more printers can use PDF. We generally used a tool to convert PCL to PS to suit our workflow if that was the only option for the file, because being able to manipulate the file (reordering and applying barcodes or minor text modifications) was important. Likewise for AFP and other formats. PCL jobs were rare so I never worked on them personally.
- LorenPechtel 7y agoUnfortunately, when you need the output of program A as the input to B sometimes you have to jump through such hoops. I've never done it with .pdf but I've fought similar battles with .xps and never fully conquered them. (And the parser was unstable as hell, besides--it would break with every version and sometimes for far lesser reasons.)
- dredmorbius 7y agoOughts isn't ises.