[cups.general] Printing to PDF

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Oct 21 12:24 Denny Snyder wrote (shortened):
> I had setup a 'Print to PDF' printer device at one point
> in time on CUPS v1.2.x

As far as I know CUPS before version 1.3 never provided
a 'Print to PDF' device or such a functionality.

Such kind of functionality was provided by third party tools
("third party" from the CUPS point of view), usually by
whatever desktop system like KDE and/or Gnome.

Since CUPS 1.3 there is the cupsfilter command which should
generate a PDF file the same way as if it would be printed, see
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/man-cupsfilter.html


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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