[reportlab-users] ascii85

[Uwe Hoffmann]

Tim Roberts schrieb:

> Uwe Hoffmann wrote:

>>   the pdf interpreter in some (all ?) HP printers is not able to properly

>>   interpret ascii85 encoded streams when confronted with

>>   whitespace  between the two terminating characters ( ~> ) .

>>   I have read the ascii85/pdf spec and think the current reportlab

>>   behaviour is correct. Nevertheless i think the printers won't be

>>   able to correctly work with such documents in the near future.

>>

>>   As a workaround i have removed the _wrap call .

>>   

> 

> Are you saying there are HP printers that can interpret PDF files

> directly?  Or are you just talking about sections of a PDF that get

> passed through to the printer's Postscript interpreter verbatim?

> 


one can send a complete pdf document to a hp printer which has the 
"direct pdf printing" capability.