getting cups-pdf to work

[Jonathan]

Hello,

   I changed it from /dev/null to ipp://localhost/printers/PDFprinter

Still no output.

   My real printer at least prints even though it turns out wrong.  I would rather just stick with a pdf printer.

"cups-pdf:/"  I tried this and it started producing output files, but then all of a sudden the printer disappear of the list of available network printers.

Now I can do test pages from within cups and have them appear as PDF files.
However, now windows can't see the printer for some unknown reason.
I didn't change smb.conf so I have no idea why that happened. I rebooted both the client and server to no avail.  I used testparm and it reported 0 errors.


Later,
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 All the content on opensuse.org is approx 2 years old referencing out-of-date stuff.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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