[cups] Testing Cups-PDF

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Fri Jun 3 03:55:00 PDT 2016


Brian Potkin wrote:

>> Is there any way of testing Cups-PDF without trying to print a PDF file?
>> The trouble with this is that if it doesn't work it prints out many pages
>> of garbage.
> 
> It is unclear to me what the objective here is. The cups-pdf I'm aware
> of (printer-driver-cups-pdf on Debian) prints to a PDF file and not to
> a printer. The filter chain can be tested with cupsfilter (which is in
> /usr/sbin/ on this machine).

Thank you for your response.
However, I'm running Fedora-24/KDE, and although Cups-PDF 
is listed as a printer when I go tp <http://localhost:631/>,
I don't see any way to run it directly.
Cups-PDF does not appear to be a program to create a PDF file;
I assume it is intended to convert a PDF file to printer commands?
The command "lpr -PCups-PDF minimal.pdf" does not produce anything.




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Timothy Murphy  
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin





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