> I'm pretty sure the ps versus pdf is just the way the print job
> is handed to the driver that converts it to whatever the
> printer actually needs.
>
> Certainly my Brother HL-2040 doesn't print postscript of
> any kind natively, it needs HP PCL. My Epson Artisan doesn't
> even use a native dri
> Did any of those changes involve something as fundamental as the change from
> ps to pdf that is happening here?
I'm pretty sure the ps versus pdf is just the way the print job
is handed to the driver that converts it to whatever the
printer actually needs.
Certainly my Brother HL-2040 doesn't
> I think that change is just an internal detail cups cares about.
>
> I've been just copying my /etc/cups/ppd/ files from one fedora to the
> next for years now and printing keeps working (and seemed to work
> in fedora 19 beta as well).
Thank-you for your comments, Tom.
Did any of those change
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
William Mattison wrote:
> My question: Will the coming CUPS upgrade break printing on my system? or
> has this been properly accounted for in CUPS 1.6?
I think that change is just an internal detail cups cares about.
I've been just copying my /etc/cups/
I see in the Fedora-19 release notes that CUPS will be upgraded to 1.6. The
page on that:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CUPS1.6
says this involves using pdf rather than postscript as the baseline document
format. While wrestling to get printing working on my system this past spring,
