[cups] Testing Cups-PDF

[Brian Potkin]

On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 13:28:58 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> 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.

I suspect it is not. :)

At

 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=7274430

we see:

 Information for RPM cups-pdf-2.6.1-11.fc24.x86_64.rpm

  "cups-pdf" is a backend script for use with CUPS - the "Common UNIX
   Printing System" (see more for CUPS under http://www.cups.org/).
  "cups-pdf" uses the ghostscript pdfwrite device to produce PDF Files.
   This version has been modified to store the PDF files on the Desktop
   of the user. This behavior can be changed by editing the configuration file.

The upstream source is as above:

 http://www.cups-pdf.de/

The ppd is named CUPS-PDF.ppd, so CUPS-PDF will be the name of the print queue.

Earlier you said:

 > I assume it is intended to convert a PDF file to printer commands?

Incorrect. It produces PDF files from other files.

 > The command "lpr -PCups-PDF minimal.pdf" does not produce anything.

The PDF produced has to be somewhere. On the desktop? In /var/spool?

Regards,

Brian.