Printing to file with CUPS.
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Fri Aug 11 04:38:17 PDT 2006
Kurt Pfeifle <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote (Thursday 10 August 2006 09:44):
> To enable it, use
>
> FileDevice Yes
>
> (in cupsd.conf) and you'll have "print to file" support. Then install
> your "psfileprinter":
>
> lpadmin -p psfileprinter -v file:/tmp/my-ps-files -E -P /path/to/PPD
>
> Create the target directory:
>
> mkdir /tmp/my-ps-files
Sorry, that was wrong. I confused this advice with one I gave to
someone else, who *does* have a filewriting backend that uses a
*directory* to print into.
The simple file:/ backend that's part of CUPS does print to a file,
not a directory. So better use
lpadmin -p psfileprinter -v file:/tmp/ps-output.ps -E -P /path/to/PPD
and be done.
Cheers,
Kurt
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