[ale] cups PDF printer

[dhurst at kennesaw.edu (Dow Hurst)]

When installing a new printer you can give the Device URI as file:// 
path/to/filename.  You could do a lpd://hostname/queue and then 
configure the queue like your used to doing to pass the file thru 
ghostscript.
Dow


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>For some foolish reason, I installed the Ximian desktop onto a RedHat 8
>system. The new OpenOffice.org from the monkey people crashes horribly
>unless the print stuff is cups. So I changed to cups.
>
>But my PDF printer (it writes to file) can't be found. The admin stuff
>under cups looks like there should be a file: option, but it doesn't
>list in lpinfo -v. 
>
>How to I add a new print to location or do I need to recompile cupsd?
>
>Assuming I get a file: location, how do I go about adding a gs
>-pDEVICE=pdfwriter line in cups?
>  
>

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