PDF Printer Driver

lizardthicket · 06-11-2009, 09:49 AM

Hi, I am new. Will study forums and your procedures. Right now I have dropped MS and have newest Ubuntu installed.

Question: I am used to having a PDF printer driver (program in MS world "Cute.exe") to save data by printing to a PDF printer driver. Any recommendations? I am starting research and CUPS is first stop I guess. Thanks..

farslayer · 06-11-2009, 11:11 AM

What distro are you running ? cups has a pdf driver you can install.

for Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

Reference
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-cre...in-ubuntu.html
http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-ins...in-debian.html

ramram29 · 06-11-2009, 11:30 AM

Google cups-pdf.

ilikejam · 06-11-2009, 11:54 AM

You could print to a file, which should give you a postscript file, then run 'ps2pdf <filename>' to get a PDF.

Dave

tredegar · 06-11-2009, 01:13 PM

My Openoffice Writer (V2.4) offers File-> Export -> as PDF
As usual with linux, there are several ways to achieve what you need.
Welcome to LQ.

lizardthicket · 06-12-2009, 12:51 PM

Thanks for quick feedback. I am on Ubuntu 9.04 and have installed cups; checking it out. Will also look at the ps2pdf process. This should do it, thanks again.

farslayer · 06-12-2009, 02:56 PM

wow you really want to go through multiple steps to get a PDF instead of just using the cups-pdf package and being able to print them directly form any application ?

Whatever floats your boat I guess..