On 02/18/2009 12:56 PM, H.S. wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> >> Maybe it's a KDE thing, then? I use Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu and >> print to PDF always Just Been There (tm). I use it a lot. >> > > Sure. But I had trouble with it till at least around four years ago. It > might have been due to my ignorance about cups; there appeared to > different printing systems available. And since I did not have a printer > connected with my computer at home, printing never really was an > important thing .... see, to save as PDF, it might have not occurred to > me at that time to actually install a printing system; I was very new to > Linux. > >
Create a 'PDF' folder in your home directory. Then from a terminal: sudo apt-get install cups-pdf Then System|Administration|Printing|New Printer and you'll find the PDF printer (Print to PDF file). It actually has some pretty good print/job options out of the box. But if you want some really nice ones, (PDF Colour Model, Prepress/ebook etc) set another one up using the gutenprint ppd: /usr/share/ghostscript/8.61/lib/ghostpdf.ppf or just 'locate ghostpdf.ppd'. The printer will then show up in all your applications (including Adobe Reader 8) & the print jobs will go to ~/PDF. Note: you may want to adjust the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf to label all pdf print jobs: change 'Label 0' to 'Label 1'. But as Adam pointed out, printing a pdf job. as you know, isn't the same as exporting to pdf with bookmarks etc., using OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
