HOWTO: Install Cups-PDF

[ugm6hr]

I am using Gutsy Gibbon

After step 5, I get the following in the terminal

Any suggestions.

Have a look at my post above re: Gutsy:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...&postcount=117

[labinnsw]

After doing step 2 and steps 10-15, the test page does not print. A window pops up which says "Test page submitted as job 170." I click OK and nothing happens.

So I try printing a page from firefox, and a window pops up which says "Progress: preparing..." then closes after a while. In the document print status window, the status of the job is held. I select the job and releases it. The status changes temporarily to processing and then reverts to held. I do this 4 times and after the 4th attempt, it dissapears.

I go to the PDF directory and no new job is there. The last job was created October 6 (prior to my upgrade to Gutsy).

The cups-pdf_log looks like this (only larger):

Fri Nov 30 11:43:58 2007 [ERROR] failed to open spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-7127)
Fri Nov 30 11:44:07 2007 [ERROR] failed to open spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-7129)
Fri Nov 30 11:44:56 2007 [ERROR] failed to open spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-7163)
Fri Nov 30 11:45:10 2007 [ERROR] failed to open spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-7165)

Any suggestions?

[labinnsw]

This problem is still not solved, does anyone have any further ideas?

[ashikahamed]

I installed cups-pdf as per the instructions from this forum.The test page is printed in the roots folder '/root/PDF' instead of my home folder.Any solution for this problem?

[mssever]

I installed cups-pdf as per the instructions from this forum.The test page is printed in the roots folder '/root/PDF' instead of my home folder.Any solution for this problem?

Probably the process you were printing from was owned by root.

[ashikahamed]

The test page is owned by root and so it was printed in the roots home folder.Its works perfectly for files owned by me.Thankyou

[rbil49]

I've struggled with this and have been unable to get it working properly in 7.10. I have such a beast working fine in Edgy. So somethings broke and I have yet to figure out what.

What I've resorted to doing is to print to file, so that I get a PS file in my ~/PDF directory. Then I run a Nautilus script I wrote on the PS file and convert it to a PDF. A bit of a hassle.

So when people say it works for them, I'd sure like to know the secret.

Cheers.

[mssever]

So when people say it works for them, I'd sure like to know the secret.

My secret is to install cups-pdf, add the printer, and do nothing special. Sorry it doesn't work for you.

[rbil49]

My secret is to install cups-pdf, add the printer, and do nothing special. Sorry it doesn't work for you.

So am I. Man, I can't believe the number of little gotchas like this I'm finding in Gutsy. Previous versions have all worked so fine. This has become quite disappointing.

Cheers.

[tyk]

ahh.. blessings to you people
now i have pdfs from my CAD dwgs, up to A3 size; exactly what i need
manny mannny thanks