[CVALE] Setting up a PDF/Postscript printer on Linux.

[Patrick Bennett]

i just did it on my own system, further details are as follows:

- in cups add printer wizard, select "device" = <"CUPS PDF" as I recall, 
or at least the one with "PDF" in the description>, and "make" = "raw queue"
- when you print a file to this printer, it will be saved to a file with 
a unique name in ~/PDF/

    -Patrick

Patrick Bennett wrote:
> This is deliciously trivial on a debian+cups system, which it would 
> appear you have.....
>
> "apt-get install cups-pdf"
> then connect to your cups configurator and install the cups printer... 
> (could be done any number of ways, but for instance from your console 
> gui web browswer: "http://localhost:631")
>
> -Patrick
>
> Landon Blake wrote:
>   
>> Can anyone point me to a tutorial that shows how to set up a PDF 
>> and/or Postscript printer on Linux? On MS Windows I’ve got this little 
>> freeware program that allows me to select a PDF printer from just 
>> about any application that supports printing. Is there a way to do a 
>> similar thing on Linux?
>>
>> I’m running Debian, so if there is a Debian specific tutorial that 
>> would be awesome. But I’ll take what I can get. (I’m embarrassed to 
>> say that I’ve never even tried to print from Linux using a regular 
>> printer, so this is new territory for me.)
>>
>> Landon
>>
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