Ok I went through the script, which I copied and pasted into a text file. There was some bad line wrap :|
Now printing is fine, except that the pdf file isn't there %more /tmp/pdf.log Executable: Arguments: |37|root|Testpage|1||| PDF directory: /mnt/pdfdrop Output file name: /mnt/pdfdrop/Testpage.pdf on doing an ls /mnt/pdfdrop the directory is empty any ideas ? Chris On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:07:37 +1100 "Christopher Booth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I was searching on google for how to do this, but most of the info > that I came across for setting up a pdf printer + sharing with samba > doesn't work (from what I can work out) with cups, as it does things > differently (it thinks outside the box) > the /etc/printcap is dynamically generated by cups and only lists the > names of the printers followed by a colon > eg > DT65: > DC400: > DC451: > DT135: > > if you manually edit this file, on restarting cups, your extra > configuration disappears. > > I came across this link http://users.swing.be/kdeprint/pdf > > which is a script file to be added as a backend for cups. > I have done this, but I don't get any output. > > my /etc/cups/printers.conf has this > > <Printer pdf> > DeviceURI pdf:/mnt/pdfdrop > State Stopped > StateMessage > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > </Printer> > > my /mnt/pdfdrop has the following permissions > drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 8 03:14 pdfdrop/ > > print jobs to the printer are just sitting in the queue, and printing > gets disabled for the queue. > > any ideas > > TIA > > Chris > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.330 / Virus Database: 184 - Release Date: 28/02/02 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
