[cups.general] Printing to PDF

Denny Snyder wolverine at jhu.edu
Wed Oct 21 10:16:11 PDT 2009


Thanks for the info.  I'll start me reading odyssey :)

and I fixed my email client to only send plaintext to this address..  
sorry everyone...

Denny Snyder
Systems Engineer
IT at Johns Hopkins
5801 Smith Ave Suite 3110C
Baltimore, MD 21209
(410) 735-7613: DESK
(410) 735-4660: FAX


On 10/21/2009 01:06 PM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Denny Snyder wrote:
>
>    
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
>> </head>
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>> <font size="+1">Hello all,<br>
>> <br>
>> I had setup a 'Print to PDF' printer device at one point in time on
>> CUPS v1.2.x<br>
>> <br>
>> Now I'm running 1.3.9 and this is being revisited.  My pre-existing
>> setup was cleaned out prior to the upgrade.<br>
>> <br>
>> Could someone point me to a howto or a document to point me in the
>> right direction?<br>
>> <br>
>> Thanks<br>
>> </font>
>> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
>> Denny Snyder
>> Systems Engineer
>> IT at Johns Hopkins
>> 5801 Smith Ave Suite 3110C
>> Baltimore, MD 21209
>> (410) 735-7613: DESK
>> (410) 735-4660: FAX</pre>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>      
> 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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