How-to create a PDF printer at Ubuntu?

Alexsandro Tamari Martins alexmartbr at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 00:13:38 UTC 2004


Hi Chris,
I did like you said, but the PDF printer option wasn't there.....

Regards,



On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:26:43 -0400, Chris <ubuntu at functionalfuture.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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