Printing to a file

[Florian Diesch]

R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> writes:

> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:58:59 +0100
> Sascha Effert wrote:
>
>> If you hit the print button in your application you should should be
>> able to choose between different printer, one is called "print to file"
>> or something similiar (do not know exactly, here it is in german). You
>> do not have to set up a printer manually for that.
>
> But that's my problem, there doesn't seem to be any such option.
>
> I'm less concerned about the format of the printed file, as I can probably
> convert it to another format once it is on disk.  The problem arose when I
> tried to print from a webpage in Firefox.  The default printer doesn't
> allow printing to a file, and nor does the setup process for a second
> printer.

I have a "print to file" printer with creating a CUPS printer for it.

That's the printing dialog in Firefox:
<http://www.florian-diesch.de/tmp/firefox-printing.png>

(Ubuntu 9.10, Gnome)


   Florian
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