Printing to PDF Using CUPS
- Install CUPS-PDF based on your distro, you can download if from here.
- Click this link http://localhost:631 or type it into your browser.
- If the page requested a username and password, just enter your root username and password.
- Go the “Administration” tab and select “Add Printer” in the Printer section.
- For “Add Printer” page, put a name for your virtual PDF printer, any name will do. Then click “Continue”.
- For the second page, that is “Device for a”, you should select “CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF Driver)”. If it’s not there, then you haven’t execute Step 1 successfully.
- In the 3rd page, choose “Generic” as the Make and then click “Continue”.
- 4th page, choose “Generic CUPS-PDF Printer (en)” as the model and then click “Add Printer”. You’re done, but we need to customize where the file will be located when you printed it.
- Edit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf in your favourite editor.
- Put these lines at the end of the file and save it (both can be customized):
1 2 | Out /home/${USER}/Desktop
Label 1 |
- The first line actually tell CUPS to print your file to the Desktop and the second line will make sure your file won’t be overwritten by the newer one.
- Restart your CUPS, for Slackware users, you can type this command /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
- So, that’s all and good luck !
Tested on Slackware 12.1, CUPS 1.3.7
