Save to PDF

[Helge Blischke]

Steve Housley wrote:

> This is a note I sent to Don McAllister of ScreencastOnline.  He referred
> me to your site for help.  You guys are way over my head, but is it
> possible that you could offer the steps necessary to incorporate the CUPS
> into my printer selections for direct PDF printing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> MacBookPro
> Snow Leopard 10.6.4
> 
> To Don,
> 
> Since most of us, I’d guess, Save to PDF rather than printing a hard copy,
> why can’t we add the “Save to PDF” as a printer default selection. 
> Everything is there, all that is necessary is to add the option in the
> printer window.  No muss or fuss, no virtual drivers, no expensive Acrobat
> Pro.

I have a  backend, prtofile, which permits writing to file and doing user 
defined postprocessing, e.g. creating PDF using Ghostscript. This backend,
which is near to be published on the links of the cups web site, will run on 
10.6.x.

Drop me an e-mail if you are interested.

Helge