https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776080
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776080#c12
--- Comment #12 from Johannes Meixner 2012-10-11 14:19:03 CEST ---
Eric Schott,
many thanks for your testing and your valuable comments!
It seems the switch from PostScript to PDF as the standard
print job format has become the topmost reason for various
new printing issues.
This switch is advocated by the
OpenPrinting workgroup of the Linux Foundation
and the CUPS author, see "PDF as standard print job format"
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting
See also
"PDF: The future common printing format" at
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing
For my personal opinion see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c5
I think the real problem with the switch from PostScript to PDF
as standard print job format is when applications cannot be easily
switched back from PDF to PostScript as standard print job format
both by a normal user who runs a particular application and
by an admin to specify a system default print job format.
I don't know if one can cofigure Qt or Gtk or applications
using Qt or Gtk or KDE or Gnome so that they produce again
PostScript by default.
See in particular those bug reports:
bnc#732442
Applications using Qt produce PDF for printing which can fail
on PostScript printers
bnc#781193
LibreOffice: Cannot print landscape if it generates PDF
(works for PostScript)
Even bnc#774627 and its duplicates (i.e. Printing on PostScript
printers no longer works) is a side-effect of this switch, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774627#c3
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