cups-pdf (SuSe Linux 9.3 - Kernel 2.6.11)

[Helge Blischke]

Fabrizio Calselli wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running SUSE Linux 9.3 Kernel 2.6.11.......
> 
> I am having some problems with "cups-pdf": After having downloaded the "tar-ball" ( cups-pdf_1.7.3.tar.gz) I have compiled successfully the related program.
> 
> gcc -O9 -o /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf  cups-pdf.c
> 
> After the compliling of the source I did restart the CUPS deamon:
> 
> /etc/init.d/cups restart
> 
> My problem is that I do not see the "printer" in the list of the known printers:
> 
> lpinfo -v | grep cups-pdf
> 
> Please help: What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Fabrizio

You probably must allow printing to file in your cupsd.conf, as the cups-pdf 
advertizes itself as a file device.

Helge

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