[cups.general] Need help printing PDFs

Gerald Britton gerald.britton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 12:43:52 PDT 2007


Distro is ubuntu 7.04
Cups version is  1.2.8-0ubuntu8

On 9/24/07, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> Gerald Britton wrote:
> > HI -- I'm new to CUPS and want to print a PDF file.
>
> Which distro?
>
> Which version of CUPS?
>
> Which pdftops filter used in
> CUPS (use the "file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops" command to find out
> if it is just a wrapper script or a binary) ?
>
> I'm asking because some distros don't ship the original CUPS pdftops
> filter, but have cobbled together their own wrapper script around
> the XPDF utility with the same name, which regularly causes problems
> similar to yours, due to its own bugs and misconfiguration....
>
>
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