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schorsche
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 Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: cups-pdf at Acroread VirtualPrinter |
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Hello,
I've just emerged cups-pdf and added a virtual printer to my cups-config on loacalhost.
I was just wondering which command I have to put into the "command" line in
Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to make it print pdf's? How can I refer to a printer
from a local application?
The default /usr/bin/lpr command that Acroread suggests doesn't quite work out.
Any help gratefully received |
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daff
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Your PDF printer has the name you gave it to during installation, so you'd address it by /usr/bin/lpr -Ppdf_printername. Of course it's not enough to just emerge cups-pdf, you have to install the printer in CUPS.
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schorsche
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I've tried it out but it doesn't work.
The virtual pdf-printer VirtualPrinter is installed in Cups. When I type | Code: | | /usr/bin/lpr -P VirtualPrinter |
to print the pdf from AdobeAcrobatReader, nothing happens.
When I print any file from OpenOffice it works flawlessly thouch.
Any ideas? |
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daff
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I don't get it, why would you want to print (or convert, as this is what a PDF printer does) a PDF document to PDF?
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nobspangle
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| daff wrote: | | I don't get it, why would you want to print (or convert, as this is what a PDF printer does) a PDF document to PDF? |
exactly what I was thinking,
Do you understand what cups-pdf does,
it is a program that converts documents into pdf files.
e.g. to convert this webpage to a pdf document you would print it to the cups-pdf virtual printer. The resulting pdf is in /var/spool/cups-pdf. |
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schorsche
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Many Thanks all of you,
I've just realised that cups-pdf is a program for printing output to a pdf file.
Pdf2ps of course is the command I was looking for. I can then print the ps
file using lpr.
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Guinpen
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| Actually, there is a reason to want to convert a PDF into a PDF. The administration at my university releases some financial account documents in PDF with the note that they can only be read with the latest version of Acrobat Reader. Funny enough, that's true - KPDF won't open them. So I have to open them in Acroread, and convert them to PDF to use them with KPDF. Sad but true... |
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