[cups.general] Printing to PDF

Wed Oct 21 10:06:22 PDT 2009

Denny Snyder wrote:

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> <font size="+1">Hello all,<br>
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> I had setup a 'Print to PDF' printer device at one point in time on
> CUPS v1.2.x<br>
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> Now I'm running 1.3.9 and this is being revisited.  My pre-existing
> setup was cleaned out prior to the upgrade.<br>
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> Could someone point me to a howto or a document to point me in the
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> Thanks<br>
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> Denny Snyder
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There are several print-to-pdf backends around with different capabilities. 
You might use the print-to-file backend attached here and configure it to 
call Ghostscipt to generate PDF. I'd recommend to use an Acrobat Distiller 
PPD for this printer.
See the comments in the backend script for an example how to generate PDF.

Helge

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