getting cups-pdf to work (update)

[Jonathan]

Hello all,

  Ok, first I made a slight version mistake it is 11.4 OpenSuSe.(Sorry)
I am just waiting for the 12.0 Release to upgrade.

  Anyway, I just did a manual upgrade to cups 1.5.  I got the command-line on the linux side to generate PDF(s).  I can lp filename and it works.

   New problem I got it making files, but all my files are 2.14k empty shells with no content when printing from Windows.  Specifically notepad and firefox, and LibreOffice 3.4.3 for windows.


  How close to ready is cups 1.6? Would it be stable enough for my pdf printer?

Here is a part of a file opened in notepad:
===================================================
<?xpacket end='w'?>
endstream
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Producer(GPL Ghostscript  9.0)
/CreationDate(D:20110929203739-05'00')
/ModDate(D:20110929203739-05'00')>>endobj
xref
0 8
0000000000 65535 f
0000000299 00000 n
0000001758 00000 n
0000000240 00000 n
0000000126 00000 n
0000000015 00000 n
0000000108 00000 n
0000000363 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 8 /Root 1 0 R /Info 2 0 R
/ID [<C1EBD25D4F218256ADFB7680FD9208F7><C1EBD25D4F218256ADFB7680FD9208F7>]
>>
startxref
1881
%%EOF

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Later,
Jonathan

>
> Hello,
>
> On Sep 28 09:26 Jonathan wrote (excerpt):
> > One of the websites your reference refers to:
> > /etc/cups/printers.conf
> > This file does not exist
>
> Your system (at least your CUPS installation) is broken.
>
> Running openSUSE 11.2 with the Tumbleweed repository
> might be the reason why your system is messed up because
> Tumbleweed is not intended for older openSUSE versions.
>
>
> > All the content on opensuse.org is approx 2 years old
> > referencing out-of-date stuff.
>
> It is up to date. Read it carefully and you will see
> that CUPS 1.1 is mentioned to describe the differences
> how it was with CUPS 1.1 compared to how it is nowadays.
>
> Perhaps for you using the newest stuff via Tumbleweed things
> like CUPS 1.1 is not of any interest. But at least I have also
> users in mind who still run CUPS 1.1 in particular in business
> environments where they do not or cannot upgrade all the time
> to the newest stuff because they do not want to change their
> stable running systems.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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