[cups] Where does the "Virtual PDF printer" print to?

ToddAndMargo ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Sat Nov 25 04:29:22 PST 2017


On 11/22/2017 09:44 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día miércoles, noviembre 22, 2017 a las 06:32:44p. m. -0800, ToddAndMargo escribió:
> 
>> Not finding anything on my desktop.
>>
>> Where is this thing printing to?
> 
> It prints on my system to:
> 
> $ pwd
> /home/guru
> $ ls -l cups-pdf
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 guru  wheel  24  3 feb.   2015 cups-pdf -> /var/spool/cups-pdf/guru
> 
> 	matthias


After printing to the "Virtual_PDF_Printer":

$ ls -al /var/spool/cups-pdf
total 4
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root   18 Aug 22  2015 .
drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Nov  3  2016 ..
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    6 Nov 22 18:34 SPOOL

$ ls -al /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Nov 22 18:34 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 18 Aug 22  2015 ..

But this showed up on my desktop:
file:///home/tony/Desktop/Re___cups__Where_does_the__Virtual_PDF_printer__print_to_.pdf


So, HMMMMMMM.  I wonder why this is the first time it
ever showed up.  Maybe it was the "yum update" I did.
Go figure.

Thank you all for the help!

-T



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