On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 08:07, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > You're thinking about: > > existing PDF -> programs -> paper. > > > > The rest of the thread is about: > > existing document *NOT* in PDF format (say, Abiword) -> print system -> > > PDF *instead* of paper. > > > > "Printing" to PDF is close enough to printing to paper that it makes > > sense to use the same mechanisms to produce a PDF. > > > I just what to be sure I am learning what I think I am learning. Is > what is being referred to is the possibility that cups can take a document > is some arbitrary format and produce a document in pdf format. Not > print it just produce a pdf file. Yes - once CUPS-PDF is installed you can do that. You may want to read the entire thread, but here's the link to the "essential ingredient": > Have you installed cups-pdf? It is found at > http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/
