How-to create a PDF printer at Ubuntu?

Chris ubuntu at functionalfuture.com
Thu Oct 14 23:26:43 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 19:15 -0400, Chris wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 19:10 -0300, Alexsandro Tamari Martins wrote:
> > Team,
> > I need to create a PDF printer at ubuntu to document a lot of things
> > that I do on the web.
> > can anyone help me?
> 
> Install the "cups-pdf" package (either from Synaptic or apt-get).
> 
> Restart the cups system.  I don't know how to or even if you can do this
> graphically.  I use "sudo /etc/inid.d/cupsys restart".
> 
> Then go to Computer->System Configuration->Printing and select "New
> Printer".  You should now have a choice for PDF Printer.

Ah, OK, it doesn't appear to work in Ubuntu for some reason.  The driver
is crashing (segfault it looks like).

So much for that idea.

-- 
// Chris





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