PDF Printing support from Python

[dcrespo]

>> Your solution requires a previous installation of Acrobat.

> Probably not.  Most printing systems I'm familiar with use
> ghostscript to render PDF into either postscript (the case on
> my machines at home) or whatever raster format the printer
> desires (the case at my office).

Acrobat (windows) and Ghostscript are PDF drivers.

>> Internally, the OS is sending the pdf file to the Acrobat PDF
>> Driver and then it is sent to the printer.

> Nope.  It's usnig the foomatic print filters which in turn use
> ghostscript to render PDF.

What I mean is that the pdf file is sent to a pdf driver (some program
to interpret it)... In your case is ghostscript, and in my case is
Acrobat.

> No you just need a good printing system.  CUPS + foomatic works
> great for me.  It knows what to do with postcript, text, PDF,
> dvi, and a whole boatload of other fileformats that I don't
> ever use.

CUPS + foomatic are the whole megadriver... So it's just a manner of
saying PDF Driver for my study case.

Really thanks for all the information :) I didn't know about
Ghostscript.

Daniel