Printing to PDF

[Thomas Kaiser]

Patton Echols wrote:
> I have wanted to be able to print a web page to a multipage pdf file.  I 
> know if I have a document open in Open Office, I can directly generate a 
> PDF, but I have been unable to find a way to do so from Firefox.  Anyone 
> have any insights they'd care to share?
> 
> Ubuntu Feisty
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patton
> 

cups-pdf is the package you need:
> thomas at AMD64:~$ apt-cache show cups-pdf
> Package: cups-pdf
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/graphics
> Installed-Size: 244
> Maintainer: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi>
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 2.4.2-3
> Depends: gs-esp, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
> Pre-Depends: cupsys (>= 1.1.15)
> Suggests: gnome-cups-manager
> Filename: pool/universe/c/cups-pdf/cups-pdf_2.4.2-3_amd64.deb
> Size: 40610
> MD5sum: 1debea2b1ea3973565f4234d8a317cd6
> SHA1: 8a30ce444e382d33eb67e3489c406f5be7e6f7f0
> SHA256: 8fd728568e495fd09dcb023dbe55cd6e2706b19f306fbaf82de0f39d212206b5
> Description: PDF printer for CUPS
>  CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a
>  virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.
>  .
>  Documents are written to a configurable directory (by default to ~/PDF)
>  or can be further manipulated by a post-processing command.
>  .
>  Homepage:  http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/
> Enhances: cupsys
> Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Origin: Ubuntu
> 

Thomas




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