getting cups-pdf to work

[Jonathan]

Hello,

   I have been to these sites and still not helpful.  I did everything suggested at one point in time.  In regards to DEVICE_URI=file:///dev/null
I did not choose this.  I selected cups-pdf from a drop down and it automatically entered this value.  If the value is incorrect what is the correct value for a printer that is virtual.

Is this the correct value??
	ipp://192.168.0.1/printers/pdfPrinter
        or
        ipp://localhost/printers/PDFprinter

One of the websites your reference refers to:
/etc/cups/printers.conf
This file does not exist

I have a cups version of 1.4.6-7.8.1 and samba 3.6
I setup the printers with the web based cups GUI.

All the content on opensuse.org is approx 2 years old referencing out-of-date stuff.  For example references to OpenSuse 10.2 and cups 1.1




Later,
Jonathan

>
> Hello,
>
> On Sep 28 08:05 Jonathan wrote (excerpt):
> > ... create a cups-pdf printer for my network
> > ... Running on opensuse 11.2 with the tumbleweed repository
> > ... I get no output files.
> > ... I have been trying to print from Windows 7.
> > ... The virtual printer seems to be accepting the job,
> > but then it seems to go nowhere.
> ....
> > error_log
> ....
> > D ... "DEVICE_URI=file:///dev/null"
>
> With a device URI which points to /dev/null the data
> goes nowhere, see "The Backends" in
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
>
> Regarding cups-pdf see
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_to_PDF
>
> For a cups-pdf print queue the device URI must be
> of the form "cups-pdf:/".
>
> Regarding printing from Windows see
> http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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