brother host based printing (HBP)

[Colin Law]

On 2 August 2014 08:28, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:03:46 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> [..]
>> Is that pdf file from a trustworthy source? Otherwise it might rather be
>> a virus/worm/trojan exploiting some adobe reader bug. What does the
>> command
>>
>> file mystery.pdf
>>
>> say?
>
> thufir at dur:~/Documents$
> thufir at dur:~/Documents$ file mystery.pdf
> mystery.pdf: HP Printer Job Language data
> thufir at dur:~/Documents$
>
>
> it's not malware, to that extent it's trusted.  It's just in an annoying
> format.  It prints to the printer fine (in windows), just trying to
> capture it as PDF -- preferably with text.

I don't think it is a pdf file at all, someone has done 'print to
file' instead of 'export pdf' or similar, so the result is a file in
PJL not a pdf.

Colin