Comment 50 for bug 282186

Till,
if I understand your above comment correctly,
does it mean that via the PDF workflow,
true PostScript programs do no longer work as before
(i.e. are executed on the final PostScript interpreter)?

If yes, it is no solution to replace test-pages with
whatever appropriate PDFs (can a single generic PDF
determine the actual imageable area of the device?).

The solution would be an option setting for the
PDF workflow so that true PostScript programs
still work as before.
But I wonder if this is possible at all with the
PDF workflow.
Is it perhaps possible to bypass certain steps of the
PDF workflow - e.g. by setting an appropriate
document-format option for example something like
"-o document-format=application/vnd.cups-postscript"
so that true PostScript programs still work as before?