On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 2:40 AM Jon LaBadie jonfu@jgcomp.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 02:24:37PM +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Thu, 2022-06-23 at 13:15 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
I have a 10+ year old Ricoh 3500N color laser that claims to accept PDF files. It is on my lan as host "R3500", a postscript printer and connects using CUPS and an IPP socket.
I never considered whether the cups drivers were converting my PDF files to PS before transmitting.
PostScript is a full programming language, so it is much harder to provide security for PostScript: https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/31/postscript_bug/, PDF can embed scripts, but those are more of an issue for viewers than low-end printers.
PDF has better support for the Unicode fonts commonly used for non-Western language documents (for me, using English, but with colleagues from all over, names of people and places are problematic for PostScript producing applications).