How to configure CUPS

Jay Moore jaymo at mail.bokler.com
Sun Nov 28 03:31:07 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 09:43, VJ wrote:

> > No - I can connect to the web-based admin tool on port 631, but clicking
> > the "Add Printer" button doesn't get me to a list that includes any
> > device with the word "PDF" in it.
> >
> > Specifically, after clicking "Add Printer" the first "screen" I see
> > contains three "fill-in-the-blank" inputs. Clicking "Continue" from
> > there presents me with a drop-down select for "Device:". There is no PDF
> > device in this drop-down list.

> Have you installed cups-pdf? It is found at 
> http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/
> 
> it is pretty simple to install (instructions are there on this page itself). 
> It is as simple as following
> 1) Download 3 files
> 2) Compile the .c file and put the resulting executable in a particular 
> directory.
> 3) Copy the someting something .ppd.gz file in a particular forlder
> 4) restart cups
> 
> For details see the page whose link I have sent. Then proceed to connect to 
> 631 thingy.

OK - thanks, I'll try that. Until then, I have another dumb question:

Why isn't there a package available that's compatible with FCx? This
would seem to be something _everybody_ would want.

Jay




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