[ale] CUPS/PDF_File_Generator

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Mon May 5 13:46:57 EDT 2008


Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I can not figure out where the PDF_File_Generator puts the files it
> creates.  I selected "print to file" and specified a filename.pdf but it
> turned out to be a Postscript document.  Where does cups place the PDF
> files it generates?

"Print to file" generates a postscript document, don't select it if you 
want PDF. Instead, choose the cups-pdf printer and print normally. To 
see where it ends up, check the value for "Out" in 
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. In Ubuntu, the defaults is ~/PDF.

-Brian


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