Comments on: Howto Install and Customize CUPS-PDF in Debian

By: firehawk256

firehawk256 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:13:31 +0000

I was confused about the make/manufacturer as well. I just chose “generic” for make and “generic cups-pdf printer” for the model. However, after I finished I noticed that there was already a pdf printer in my cups list. I don’t know how that got there but both seem to work fine.

By: celiapgt

celiapgt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:52:23 +0000

When chaging the output directory in Ubuntu, you have to also reconfigure the apparmor for cups-pdf. The exact instructions are in Changing cups-pdf directory, by erginemr. Until you do it, pdf won't be written to the Out directory, as I myself verified first. Celita

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:41:29 +0000

Also in Debian Lenny does it not work, cause you have always a dialog where you can set name or folder for the output.

By: Isaac Izquierdo

Isaac Izquierdo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:22:20 +0000

Thanks! I didn’t know there was a PostProcessing option. Here’s my script, it’s limited but it works:

#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0.0
export XAUTHORITY=/home/$2/.Xauthority
FILENAME=`basename $1`
DIRNAME=`dirname $1`
SAVE_AS=`gxmessage “Save as:” -entrytext $FILENAME`
mv $1 $DIRNAME”/”$SAVE_AS

By: Collins

Collins — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:57:44 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work. I printed a document from OpenOffice to the new virtual printer, but when I viewed the generated document via acroread (ie adobe acrobat reader), the document was totally blank.

By: Collins

Collins — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:45:24 +0000

Pretty minimal howto. For example, cups-pdf requires you to select a printer (or PPD file). Doe it even matter which one, and why if printing to a PDF file?

I’ll try it anyway.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:38:44 +0000

[quote]Now go to http://localhost:631? in a browser,Add the virtual printer, choosing among the options presented,[/quote]
What Make/Manufacturer do you use? Or do you use a PPD file? If so where do you find it?

I found this to be a very poor “HowTo” and more of a general overview of the package.