Print to a Postscript File instead of Physical Printer
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Tue Aug 3 09:32:00 PDT 2010
David Moore wrote:
> I'm developing for a small Linux system with no graphical interface:
> remote SSH login only. While at times I print to a physical printer, I
> need to be able to print to a Postscript file instead.
>
> I'm running the cups 1.2.4-2 release, and my kernel is a Debian 2.6.17-9.
>
> Is there a way to configure CUPS to output print jobs submitted to it to a
> PostScript file. Can I configure this to happen by default? Is there a
> way to set the name of the output file?
>
> Thanks for your time and help,
> - David Moore
AFAIK, the only way is to set up a "printer" using a backend that prints to
a file.
The built-in file device is suitable for testing only; you could get a file
backend named prtofile from me (it is going to be published soon anyway);
please drop me an e-mail if you are interested.
Helge
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