HOWTO: Install Cups-PDF

[klytu]

Great HOWTO!

I just posted a correction for the O'Reilly book "Ubuntu Hacks" Hack #26, "Make Your Own PDFs" citing this thread.

[sabitha]

nice HOWTO........ btw how to make this work on network like my HPLaserjet-1010 do

[skirkpatrick]

You can probably share your PDF printer like any other.

[sabitha]

i already do that, i know because i can see that printer (PDF printer & Laserjet-1010) on another computer but just PDF printer didnt do the job. PDF printer only can print from server not client.

[william_nbg]

I'm having a strange problem here.

I had the cups-pdf running on Breezy and now wanted to set it up on Dapper.

I installed the cups-pdf and and can find it in the 'backend' directory, change the permissions as required, but it still doesn't show up as a detected printer???

Anyone have an idea or similar experience??

[william_nbg]

OK, I found the problem. I'm having a conflict with my network printer. The printer hangs on my wife's computer (which is also Ubuntu) and I print over the cups network. If I turn that off, the pdf printer pops on. I have a vague idea how to correct this and I'll give it a shot this weekend.

[lorris]

excellent howto! I used the pdf printer i installed to print a pdf of the howto for later use during installs

Ciao!

Lorris

[mourad]

Thanks to everyone from this thread for all their guidance. The sticking point in this whole process is that you need to be root to edit the permissions on the executable.

1. Install the cups-pdf package (I used version 2.2.0-1)
2. Go to System -> Administration -> Printing
3. Doubleclick "New Pinter"
4. Notice that there is no mention of a CUPS PDF printer
5. Open a terminal and tpe "sudo nautilus" and then your password
6. Go to Filesystem -> usr -> lib -> cups -> backend
7. Rightclick "cups-pdf" and select Properties
8. Go to the Permissions tab and click the "Set user ID" special flag
9. Again try to add a new printer
10. There is now a "PDF Printer" detected, select it
11. Select the Generic, Postscript Color Printer (Rev 3b)
12. Give it a name, like PDF Printer
13. Right click on the newly created printer, and select Properties
14. Click "Print a Test Page"
15. The file should be in your Home folder, under the PDF folder

Yeah very simple and easy way .... However, I have a unique problem, I did not find "Printing" in the system "Administration" ... I don't have it ... Anypne can help telling me how to "Printing" in the system administration ...
Thanks....

[luxaeternam]

Works like a dream - thank you very much

[froggay]

ok, nice, the virual pdf printer work fine from local and remote.

But there's no /etc/cups-pdf.conf

how do i change the default pdf output location ?