[cups] Question regarding cups-pdf

[Narcis Garcia]

El 06/05/17 a les 13:54, Felix Natter ha escrit:
> hello Helge, hello Narcis,
> 
> thank you for your replies.
> 
> Helge Blischke <helgeblischke at web.de> writes:
>>> I am wondering how the cups pdf printer (printer-driver-cups-pdf package
>>> on Debian) works. There is always the option "Print to File" which
>>> allows printing to Postscript and PDF (regardless of whether
>>> printer-driver-cups-pdf is installed).
>>>
>>> If you have printer-driver-cups-pdf installed, there is a "PDF" printer,
>>> and the output is saved to ~/PDF for firefox and gedit.
>>>
>>> But how about other applications? Where is the output saved to if I
>>> print using the "PDF" printer from a java application?
>>>
>>> I also checked /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS (ABSOLUTE path for
>>> anonymously created PDF files), found in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf,
>>> but I guess I'm on the wrong track here.
>>>
>>> Many Thanks and Best Regards,
>>> -- 
>>> Felix Natter
>> Usually, the generated PDF files go to
>> /var/spool_cups-pdf/<username>
>> where <username> is the login name of the user who created the job either by command or via 
>> the print dialogue from other applications.
> 
> /var/spool/cups-pdf$ sudo find
> .
> ./SPOOL
> ./ANONYMOUS
> 
> /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf has this:
> ### Key: AnonDirName
> ##  ABSOLUTE path for anonymously created PDF files
> ##  if anonymous access is disabled this setting has no effect
> ### Default: /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS
> 
> --> but how can I enable anonymous access?
> (Sorry, I couldn't find it on the internet)

$ sudo chmod o+rwX /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS

> 
>> For details see the documentation that comes with the installed package (or 
>> look at the author’s web site.
> 
> I had a look at /usr/share/doc/printer-driver-cups-pdf and
> /usr/share/doc/cups.
> 
> I also read:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems
> 
> There is not much documentation on cups-pdf.de, except for the German
> quick guide, the link of which is broken.
> 
> The access_log has this when priting to the PDF printer via the java
> app (when nothing arrives in ~/PDF):
> localhost - - [06/May/2017:13:35:57 +0200] "POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1" 200 307 Create-Job successful-ok
> localhost - - [06/May/2017:13:35:57 +0200] "POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1" 200 4110 Send-Document successful-ok
> 
> When printing successfully from firefox, I suprisingly only get:
> localhost - - [06/May/2017:13:36:51 +0200] "POST /printers/PDF HTTP/1.1" 200 121987 Print-Job successful-ok
> 
> I guess this means the Java app does not use the printing API correctly?
> 
> $ sudo cupsctl LogDebugHistory=999999
> $ sudo cupsctl LogLevel=debug
> --> still no log output in error_log
> 
> Thanks and Best Regards,
>