[cups] PostScript to cups-pdf

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 02:49:54 PDT 2016


On Wed 06 Jul 2016 at 18:55:57 -0400, Keith Sieman wrote:

> I have an output file being spooled to CUPS containing PostScript. I want
> to have it interpreted and have cups-pdf generate the file as instructed by
> the code in the PostScript. However, cups-pdf just takes the input and
> simply prints out the code line by line. I've tried using the Generic
> Postscript Driver to drive a cups-pdf printer, but with the same result. Is
> there a guide somewhere, or could someone assist me with getting it to
> interpret the PostScript code being sent to it?
> 
> I'm new to using PostScript and trying to learn it, so sorry if this seems
> like a simple question.

The only cups-pdf I know of is intended to convert a PostScript file
into a PDF file; it is not part of CUPS. Which distribution are you
using?

Cheers,

Brian.



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