On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:46 AM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/19/2013 7:05 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a new installation of Quantal, I find that the PDF printer driver > installed by cups-pdf is not working. > > Regular printing to an HP Laserjet under the hplip package works fine. > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > In my Lubuntu 12.10 installation, cups-pdf is not installed. However I > can create a pdf file using printing, by selecting "Print to File" as > the printer. > > Do you need cups-pdf? > > > Wow, you're right! I didn't realize this capability was already there > without cups-pdf. Without cups-pdf, my System: Printers utility only shows > my Laserjet, but I see that in a Print dialog with a file open, "Print to > file" is present and PDF is an output option. > > (But it may be that cups-pdf actually was working. It seems to have been > silently saving output to ~/PDF.)
Creating PDFs, works OK for me, without cups-pdf installed. Also the saving location is application specific, that is, each application can create a pdf in a different location. Also, you can change this location, inside the print dialog. -- Ioannis Vranos http://cppsoftware.binhoster.com -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
