Make a virtual printer?

[Scott R. Godin]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:18 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I'd like to make a "printer" on my fedora box that actually just
> generates a series of .png files for each page in a print image
> directory.
> 
> I've found all the info I need to pass to ghostscript to get it
> to do this (it has a handy png output driver built in), but
> brain matter starts leaking out my ears when I try to understand
> how to invent a .ppd file and integrate this with cups so I can
> spool things to this "printer".
> 
> Anyone out there ever done such a thing and have some cofig files
> I could steal?

Wouldn't it be more space economical to render them into .pdf files
instead ? 

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