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.
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
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
