Cups pdf how to

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 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. Also in Debian Lenny does it not work, cause you have always a dialog where you can set name or folder for the output. 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. However, after I finished I noticed that there was already a pdf printer in my cups list. The cancel 1 and lprm 1 commands cancel a print job:. The job-id is the number that was reported to you by the lp command. You can also get the job ID using the lpq 1 or lpstat commands:. The job-id is the number that was reported to you by the lp or lpstat commands. Destination is the name of a printer or class that you want to actually print the job.

The available media sizes, types, and sources depend on the printer, but most support the following options case is not significant :. You can list them using the lpoptions 1 command:. When Custom is listed for the PageSize option, you can specify custom media sizes using one of the following forms:.

The -o landscape option will rotate the page 90 degrees to print in landscape orientation:. If only one banner file is specified, it will be printed before the files in the job. If a second banner file is specified, it is printed after the files in the job. The available banner pages depend on the local system configuration; CUPS includes the following banner files:. Higher priority jobs are printed before lower priority jobs, however submitting a new job with a high priority will not interrupt an already printing job.

Normal order prints page 1 first, page 2 second, and so forth. Reverse order prints page 1 last. Rather than change the configuration file for the cups-pdf printer, I went the easy way and made a link to that location of pdf output to my home folder.

You can of course do this graphically as well, if that is what you prefer. This very nicely leverages the very basic capabilities provided by my Linux desktop environment for some of those older and obscure applications I still enjoy using. Truly, a wonderful piece of open source software that is perhaps often overlooked by all the new and shiny things created today. It is such a simple thing, uses very few resources and adds some valuable functionality.

This is yet another reason why I love using Linux and open source software. It allows me the freedom to work how I want to work, capture and archive things the way I see fit and just be happy in my little digital world. Linux, fitness and vintage tech enthusiast with an almost unhealthy obsession with the openSUSE project.

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