Print to PDF

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:38:45 -0500, Michael Scottaline
<mscottaline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:50:24 -0500, paretooptimum
> <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to print to pdf as well. For example, I am looking at a
> > webpage and want to print the article to pdf to email to a
> > coworker/boss. Imagine I know a lot about computers but not
> > GNU/Linux/Debian/Ubuntu.
> =============================
> Is it just from the browser you have problems printing in pdf??  Can
> you print from xpdf directly??  If so, don't open the pdf file within

I believe he/she doesn't want to print *a* PDF, he/she wants to print
*to* a PDF.

Theoretically, that should be easy: apt-get install cups-pdf and
attach a generic colour postscript driver to that. In practice, it
isn't always that simple. I just tried it and the resulting virtual
printer is permanently "paused."

OK, let's try right clicking on the printer. Ah, there it is --
resume. Click on that. A second later it's paused again and nothing
happened.

If you're experienced enough to know to look in
/var/log/cups/error_log you'll see nothing but this helpful entry:

E [26/Feb/2005:13:11:46 +0000] PID 32389 stopped with status 0!
I [26/Feb/2005:13:11:46 +0000] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to
"debug" to find out more.

And on and on. Linux still needs too much expertise to set up these
kinds of things that everyone needs to do -- stuff that most
20-something programmers with time on their hands probably find boring
to work on.