[cups.general] Need help printing PDFs

Kurt Pfeifle k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Mon Sep 24 20:35:05 PDT 2007


Gerald Britton wrote:

> Distro is ubuntu 7.04
> Cups version is  1.2.8-0ubuntu8

> On 9/24/07, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:

>> use the "file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops" command to find out
>> if it is just a wrapper script or a binary) ?

Hmmm?

>> 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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