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!

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