Make a virtual printer?

[Kam Leo]

On 7/5/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g at mhg2.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> --
>   Scott Godin, Programmer

Would creating a print queue and setting that printer queue to print
to file work for you?