Can't print to pdf

Rainer Gutkas Rainer.Gutkas at kstp.at
Tue Feb 7 18:01:38 UTC 2006


Zach schrieb:

>Are you using cups-pdf?
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>If so then cups must be set to run as root rather than an unpriviledged user.
>Not sure if this is the problem you're having.
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When I encountered the problem I tried excactly this, didn't work. So in 
Hoary printing to pdf just worked, without extra configuring

>>From the cups-pdf homepage:
>CUPS-PDF requires root privileges since it has to modify file
>ownerships. In recent distributions the "RunAsUser" option in
>cupsd.conf is set to "Yes" which removes these privileges. Please make
>sure to set "RunAsUser No" if you want to use CUPS-PDF.
>http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/
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>On 2/7/06, Rainer Gutkas <Rainer.Gutkas at kstp.at> wrote:
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>>Hello all!
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>>My problem is that I can't print to pdf in breezy. I get a message box,
>>this isn't supported. And the workaround to print to Postscript and then
>>do ps2pdf isn't satisfying for a long time. Any suggestions?
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Rainer
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