PDF pseudo-printing (Debian CUPS)
I must be really dense. When I look at the Control Center - Printers in KDE, I see printers listed that include printing PDF to file, but when I try to print something out of, say, Firefox, they don't show up in the list of printers. When I connect to localhost:631 and try to add a printer, I don't see any option to add a printer as print-to-file. What am I missing?
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:28 pm, Monty J. Harder wrote:
I must be really dense. When I look at the Control Center - Printers in KDE, I see printers listed that include printing PDF to file, but when I try to print something out of, say, Firefox, they don't show up in the list of printers.
I think that Firefox, like Mozilla, creates it's own compute environment, and does not respect KDE's configurations for things like printers. You'd actually have to have the (PDF)printer defined in CUPS, LPR, or some other low-leve print manager.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I think that Firefox, like Mozilla, creates it's own compute environment, and does not respect KDE's configurations for things like printers. You'd actually have to have the (PDF)printer defined in CUPS, LPR, or some other low-leve print manager.
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:15:42 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> wrote:
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:28 pm, Monty J. Harder wrote:
I must be really dense. When I look at the Control Center - Printers in KDE, I see printers listed that include printing PDF to file, but when I try to print something out of, say, Firefox, they don't show up in the list of printers.
I think that Firefox, like Mozilla, creates it's own compute environment, and does not respect KDE's configurations for things like printers. You'd actually have to have the (PDF)printer defined in CUPS, LPR, or some other low-leve print manager.
Right. Now, given that when I tried to confiure CUPS to create such a printer, it SHOWS one already, and when I try to create a new one, I don't see any option for doing so. Do you suppose you could explain exactly how I'd do this?
On Sunday 21 November 2004 05:12 pm, Monty J. Harder wrote:
Now, given that when I tried to confiure CUPS to create such a printer, it SHOWS one already, and when I try to create a new one, I don't see any option for doing so. Do you suppose you could explain exactly how I'd do this?
Given that there appears to be an entire accedemic department at a major university devoted to such questions, I would't presume to do so. Not to mention that I haven't a clue. I print to an HP printer off an NT4 server, and it does ok but won't print envelopes.
You can change your print command in Moz from lpr to kprinter. Then it will launch the KDE print dialog, and will use the printers you have setup in the KDE control panel. HTH, Jim Monty J. Harder wrote:
I must be really dense. When I look at the Control Center - Printers in KDE, I see printers listed that include printing PDF to file, but when I try to print something out of, say, Firefox, they don't show up in the list of printers. When I connect to localhost:631 and try to add a printer, I don't see any option to add a printer as print-to-file. What am I missing? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:12:23 -0600, Jim Herrmann <kclug@itdepends.com> wrote:
You can change your print command in Moz from lpr to kprinter. Then it will launch the KDE print dialog, and will use the printers you have setup in the KDE control panel.
Thanks for the workaround. Now, do you have any idea how I can make this a real printer that shows up in CUPS? I keep seeing articles that say that it can be done easily, and then the printer can be shared via Samba so that Windows machines can do PDFs. But I don't see HOW it can be done.
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:54:56 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> wrote:
On Monday 22 November 2004 07:59 am, Monty J. Harder wrote:
Now, do you have any idea how I can make this a real printer that shows up in CUPS?
Most current distributions of CUPS include PDF converters, along with documentation on setting them up.
RTFM? I'd love to read the fine manual! I'm BEGGING for a fine manual!! I can't FIND a fine manual!!! If there's this wonderful documentation, why can't Google or I find it?
Perhaps this will help; http://xtronics.com/reference/print2pdf.htm or this; http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ Later, Steven On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:52:26 -0600, Monty J. Harder <mjharder@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:54:56 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins@tarcanfel.org> wrote:
On Monday 22 November 2004 07:59 am, Monty J. Harder wrote:
Now, do you have any idea how I can make this a real printer that shows up in CUPS?
Most current distributions of CUPS include PDF converters, along with documentation on setting them up.
RTFM? I'd love to read the fine manual! I'm BEGGING for a fine manual!! I can't FIND a fine manual!!! If there's this wonderful documentation, why can't Google or I find it?
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On Monday 22 November 2004 04:08 pm, Steven Hildreth wrote:
RTFM? I'd love to read the fine manual! I'm BEGGING for a fine manual!! I can't FIND a fine manual!!!
I believe I've gotten some info at cups.org, but there's quite a lot of stuff in /usr/share/doc/cups. Note that on some distros you need to set the password for the administrative user before you can log in to the web interface. That's usually documented in your distro's information on cups (which, if I recall, was on the distro's web page). I'm sorry I'm not more specific, but I've been changing distros a lot lately, and CUPS is one of those things that I get set up then forget all the details. It has varied a LOT in recent releases and distros as far as quality of documentation and whether all of the docs and pieces were included in a certain package. I do think that cups.org does have pretty complete documentation, and they're not like ntp.org who changed servers recently and forgot to move the docs.
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