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| Newer page: | version 26 | Last edited on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:47:23 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
| Older page: | version 19 | Last edited on Monday, June 14, 2004 10:46:23 pm | by KiyuKo | Revert |
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If you have an application that can't output natively to PDF, you can create yourself a PDF printer.
# Get the backend for it - look for PDF Distiller Script from http://printing.kde.org/downloads/
# Install this as 'pdf' in /usr/lib/cups/backends, and set it world executable.
+# You may need to restart CUPS (e.g. on RedHat systems run 'service cups restart')
# You probably need GhostScript installed (try looking for a package called gs-common) for ps2pdf(1).
# Add a printer, either using the web interface (http://localhost:631/), XimianDesktop's printer interface, or the command line:
lpadmin -p PDFcreator -v pdf:/home/chris/PDFfiles -E -P /path/to/distiller.ppd
-You can use any "raw" ppd you want really - I used the Raw/Raw (en) option in the installer, and it worked fine.
+You can use any "raw" ppd you want really - I used the Raw/Raw (en) option in the installer, and it worked fine. You can download a color postscript ppd file from the [cups-pdf site|http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/]
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Create the printer with the [URI] of pdf:/where/you/want/the/output.
Easy as that. Then you can set [Samba] up to print to this printer via [CUPS].
There are some notes on how this can be used with [Samba] to email PDFs to you on the [SambaPDFPrinter] page (Which also has a PDF Printer setup for LPRng).
There is also a [cups-pdf|http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/] virtual backend which can be used to print to pdf from cups. Your distribution should distribute this - for example, Debian (Sarge or Sid) users can "apt-get install cups-pdf".
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+!!! Cups and SAMBA
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+See the SambaPrinting page for more information
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!!! Auto-discovery of printers
[CUPS] can do broadcasts over a network to both advertise the availability of local printers as well as to find and "proxy" for remote printers. On a [LAN] this is probably what you want, but if you are on the MetaNet this may result in other people seeing your printers, and you seeing theirs. This can have unpleasant side-effects: for example, my cups found remote printers that were later firewalled/disconnected or removed. Later that day when starting a [GNOME] application, it would hang on start-up as the gnome printing backend tried contacting the remote printers which were now un-contactable.
