Re: Printing to CUPS-PDF from Iceweasel
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:09:25 -0500
Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> Since I searched the Debian-user archives first and didn't find this,
> I thought I would put it here after finding it in the Ubuntu forums.
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> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-38492.html
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> To print to PDF from Iceweasel, open the print dialog and select the
> default/postscript printer, select "properties", and change the
> command from "lpr..." to "kprinter...". It's a persistant change, so
> it should only have to be done once.
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> This will cause the kprinter dialog to run you select "print", and the
> CUPS-PDF printer becomes easily available along with faxing, remote
> printers, the works.
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> A friend of mine has no printer, and has been very frustrated because
> he prefers to use Iceweasel (after I set up Debian for him on his new
> laptop, he did NOT want Vista!) rather than Konqueror, and until just
> a few minutes ago I couldn't figure out how to give him reliable
> access the CUPS-PDF pseudo printer.
What problem are you trying to solve? When CUPS is running and I open
the File/Print dialog box in IW, I am automatically given the
(default?) option of CUPS/CUPS-PDF. The other CUPS printers and
PostScript/Default are all available from the drop-down list.
> Curt-
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