Tim: > > As far as printer driving is concerned, there's a belief that we should > > move away from every printer having their own incompatible ways of > > doing things (yay!), and there should be a common standard (good luck > > with that) where you can just print to your printer through the system > > with you having to do little other than choose I want to print to > > /that/ one. >
Bob Marčan: > This is already solved with Postscript. The problem is the vendors, > each trying to cut off their piece of bread in their own way. Yes, ages ago, and precisely. Though I wonder if there was a licensing issue with Postscript that made other vendors decide against it, too. I have a HP office printer, it made a claim that you could simply print a PDF file presented to it via the USB-A port on the front of it. But I discovered that *ONLY* if you created that PDF on their own special software, first. It couldn't print *any* other PDF file. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
