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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