cups-pdf [SOLVED, sort of]

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:09 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>> Is anyone using the cups-pdf system from
>>> http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/?  It's a virtual
>>> printer that can produce PDF files as output.

Should have guessed: it's SElinux.

Turning enforcing mode off allows the RPM to install.

>> 
>> print to postscript and use ps2pdf
>> 
>> That's what I've always done - well, now gnome-print allows printing to
>
> Sure, but it's kind of inconvenient compared to just selecting a printer. I 
> had cups-pdf working a while ago, and it was pretty handy.
>
> Also, I opened a PDF in evince, printed to PS, and converted back with 
> ps2pdf, and evince displayed gibberish (although acroread looked fine).
>
>> pdf directly - so most apps (that I use) don't need to go to postscript.
>
> I opened a document in evince and selected Print -> Create a PDF document. 
> When I print, I get an error popup that says, "Generating PDF is not 
> supported."
>
> Besides, not everything uses gnome-print.
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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