[cups] Question regarding cups-pdf

Felix Natter fnatter at gmx.net
Sun May 7 08:15:53 PDT 2017


hello Helge,

Helge Blischke <helgeblischke at web.de> writes:
>> Thanks. However, this did not change anything:
>> 
>> before:
>> drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4,0K Jan 26  2015 ANONYMOUS
>> drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4,0K Mai  6 13:36 SPOOL
>> felix at bitburger:/var/spool/cups-pdf$
>> 
>> after:
>> drwxrwxrwt 2 root lpadmin 4,0K Jan 26  2015 ANONYMOUS
>> drwxr-x--x 2 root lpadmin 4,0K Mai  6 13:36 SPOOL
>> 
>> So I guess anonymous access is already enabled.
>> 
>> Does anyone have an idea why the PDF does not arrive in ~/PDF, there is
>> no error the error_log and the access_log is different from a successful
>> PDF printout (see above)?
>> 
>> Many Thanks and Best Regards,
>> -- 
>> Felix Natter
>
> See the comment lines 
> ## Key: Out (config)
> and following in your cups-pdf.conf
> and set your output directory accordingly, e.g.
> Out ${HOME}
>
> And the /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS directory will only be used
> if the user who owns the print job cannot be identified.
> You may force this by specifying a user name which does not exist
> on the machine running CUPS using the -U switch in the lp command.

Yes, my machine is configured to put the output PDFs into ~/PDF:
Out ${HOME}/PDF

But as I wrote in my previous mail, when printing from firefox or gedit,
I see output files there. If I print from a java app, I don't see this
(als not in /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS), even though if I print from
the same java app on Windows to "PDFCreator", printing *does* work.

Many Thanks and Best Regards,
-- 
Felix Natter


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