HOW TO: Set up pdf printer

**anil_robo** · March 10th, 2006

Originally Posted by arnieboy

The pdf printer got installed and everything went smoothly till I actually tried to print a document (convert it into pdf). It said that its printing and seemed to "spool" all the pages but after that the printing icon came into the system tray with the paused sign and it would keep going back into paused mode every time I would try to resume it. I checked the spool list and the document is listed there with the printer in paused mode(tried resuming it from there too but it went back into paused mode). Also, the "PDF" folder does not get created in the home folder. I tried creating it manually but even then it does not work...
any ideas?

Arnav please edit the cups configuration file to allow non-root users to use this pdf printing system. (Refer to the starter thread again - I have included this information now). My apologies for the mistake.

**KillerKiwi** · March 10th, 2006

Why is this not installed by default???

arnieboy · March 10th, 2006

Originally Posted by anil_robo

Arnav please edit the cups configuration file to allow non-root users to use this pdf printing system. (Refer to the starter thread again - I have included this information now). My apologies for the mistake.

yes it worked with the correction suggested by desperado666. Thanks for updating your howto.

**anil_robo** · March 10th, 2006

Originally Posted by KillerKiwi

Why is this not installed by default???

I don't know!
But I want it installled by default! It's so handy!
Take a look at this

**froggay** · March 15th, 2006

thanks for the howto,
everything work great on my local machine.

I tried to share pdf virtual printer via samba to use it on windows.

I can see the job in the spool when i print from samba share but where is the pdf file ? i can't see it in /home/$user.

The job seems to be stuck, it doesn't dissappear from the spool

thanks for your help

**anil_robo** · March 15th, 2006

Originally Posted by froggay

thanks for the howto,
everything work great on my local machine.

I tried to share pdf virtual printer via samba to use it on windows.

I can see the job in the spool when i print from samba share but where is the pdf file ? i can't see it in /home/$user.

The job seems to be stuck, it doesn't dissappear from the spool

thanks for your help

Froggay,
I'm not in front of my Ubuntu Machine right now. So more details later. For now, see what level of security have you set for Samba (security=user, or security=share). If you have set security=user, you need to create user accounts on samba before others can use this.

To check, try accessing your ubuntu shared folders from the windows computer. If you can access them without entering username and password, security level is "share" and the printer should work fine from there.

More info is found in these threads:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=106807
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=95123
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89824
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkPrintingFromWin2000
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=61863
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=20384
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10609

**froggay** · March 17th, 2006

thanks a lot for your links anil_robo

my share works fine now with a HPlaserjet printer and folder share.

but the virtual pdf printer installed with cup-pdf doesn't work on windows throuh
g samba share.

on winodws when i connect to the "postscript-color-printer-(rev3)" i don't now which driver to use .

a idea ?

thanks a lot

**anil_robo** · March 17th, 2006

Originally Posted by froggay

but the virtual pdf printer installed with cup-pdf doesn't work on windows throuhg samba share.

on winodws when i connect to the "postscript-color-printer-(rev3)" i don't now which driver to use .

I am sorry, but my knowledge of Linux fails here! Maybe someone more competent can find a way of sharing virtual pdf printer through samba. There is a lot of information in the links I gave above, but many of them still elude me

**Ancalagon** · March 18th, 2006

Sweet HowTo!

As it turned out I needed to download, build and install the latest cups-pdf to get 'PDF printer' to show up in the 'detected printer' window, but after that it worked ... after I also install gcc.

Has anyone found a way to PDF pages like these forum pages? When I do they just come out all messed up.

I can print them to ps files, but was hoping to archive them as PDFs.

Thanks