[cups] Testing Cups-PDF

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Jun 4 05:28:58 PDT 2016


Johannes Meixner wrote:

>> ... 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.

> Perhaps
> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_to_PDF
> and
> http://www.cups-pdf.de/
> could help you.

I suspect that this program cups-pdf is completely different
to the Cups-PDF program available as part of the cups package
available on Fedora (cups-pdf-2.6.1-11.fc24.x86_64),
which is a filter for printing PDF files,
not for creating them.


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





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