Yeah, if you print to a printer what you’re most often doing is saving it as an Adobe PostScript file and sending that to the printer. PDF is similar, just with extra bells and whistles.
Comment on Save as PDF
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Until you realize that a PDF is literally just a format based around a standard set of instructions used to print documents.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
It was like that back in the eighties, until the manufacturers decided to save on the chips by moving functionality into the drivers. Which was basically the start of everyone’s problems with printers.
Hawke@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Im not so sure. I bet more than half of the drivers out there produce PCL output, and there are a lot of printers that use other languages too like ZPL and a myriad of others.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
To be fair, they added stuff to it, like selectable text on a scanned page.
tomiant@piefed.social 7 hours ago
It stands for Print Da File.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Print Deeznuts Fuckyou
rmuk@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Potable Document Format. Retains formatting and safe to consume.
tempest@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
“safe”
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Next time someone asks me what PDF stands for, this is what I will tell them
(I’m reflecting on how many times I’ve been asked what PDF stands for, because my comment would suggest it is a thing that happens often.
Doofensmirtz_meme.jpeg: “if I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what PDF stood for, I’d have two nickels. — which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice”
I think I’m just most people’s token techy friend. Or more specifically, I’m the techy friend who also knows loads of random shit and really enjoys answering random questions)
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Enhance. Enhance. Enhance…
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Brian Cox as Captain O’Hagan in Super Troopers