Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, only outputs in *.ps though I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and convert any postscript files to pdf.
I am trying to set it up, but restarting the cupsd rewrites the /etc/printcap file Chris -----Original Message----- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 12:59 am To: slug Subject: Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html Yes it's an ace "trick". I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run with the comment from the user "I don't have Distiller so I can't create PDF". Alas Adobe markets so well :-( Mike (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle with the carburettor) -- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. *************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
