[cups.general] Re: How to switch pdftops to pdf2ps

[Norbert Kamenicky]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> incheolkang at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>Hello gurus,
>>
>>I'v installed CUPS 1.1.17 on RedHat Linux AS 3.0.
>>I want to use pdf2ps(GhostScript pdf to ps converter) instead of pdftops(Xpdf converter).
>>
>>How can it be done ?
>>
> 
> Look into the Software Programmers Manual to see the command line
> options and environment variables needed for a CUPS filter.
> Then, using that information, hack a shell script (or a perl or
> whatever script) that in turn calls Ghostscript's pdf2ps
> (or, as that itself is a shell script, copy the relevant statements
> into your own script).
> 

If u haven't pdf2ps, (possibly) the simplest solution is to make
symlink pdf2ps -> pdftops.

noro