@Jack
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There is option for postscipt printing in these two applications.
I own a PostScript printer and noticed that using this option is orders of magnitude faster than workbench's postscript driver.
I suppose that Workbench postscript driver prints everything as graphics while Pstscript printing done by passing the file through ghostscript resulting in text and graphics (in case of AmiGS I guess the file comes out from ghoscript unhchanged unless specified in additional arguments).
I guess that the Workbench PostScript printer driver
is able to print both text and graphics, but that AmiPDF/AmiGS are always printing in graphics mode when
using a WB printer driver. To verify that, use printtofile.device as printer port device in the Printer
prefs editor and examine the output file. It should
contain readable text when printing in text mode and
something which looks like a hexdump when printing
in graphics mode.
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Ghostscript generates pPS document with the same page size attributes as the input, thus "Letter" sized document result in printer complaining about it (I use A4 paper).
I changed default [age size of ghostscript to A4 but additional switch needed to make ghostscript clip the image to the default size: -DFIXEDMEDIA (afair).
the question is: is there a way to make this argument to appear by default inside the print dialog?
A quick look at the AmiPDF settings dialog shows a "Printer" tab with a string gadget to specify the GhostScript parameters.
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Ability to configure postscript driver for more efficient printing is a good alternative too.
It already supports printing text as text.