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Re: PDF-Writer printer?



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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Arrizabalaga, Saioa wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I need a pdf-printer: I have tried with the cups-pdf package, following the installation steps from (http://transtronics.com/reference/print2pdf.htm). Anyway, if anyone knows another package to get my objectives, I would appreciate any help.
> 
> After completing all the steps in the link before, I have tried to print a plain-text file in this pdf-printer with lp:
> 	lp -d pdf_writer_printer -t result.pdf plain_text_file
> 
> A pdf file is created (although it doesn?t take the name I wanted (result.pdf), it takes the name "job_number-untitled_document.pdf"). Anyway, the created pdf file is always empty (its size is always 321 bytes). I have been looking the logs, and found that there is an error of ESP Ghostscript:
> 
> [snipped]
> D [29/Nov/2004:17:41:34 +0100] [Job 9] stdin: is not a tty
> 
> D [29/Nov/2004:17:41:34 +0100] [Job 9] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> [snipped]
> 
> At the end you will find all the error stack (/var/log/cups/error_log).
> 
> I don?t know if the error is because I am using lp in an incorrect way, or my cups-pdf configuration is incorrect...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here you have the stack of the errors: (/var/log/cups/error_log)
> 
> [snipped]

Hi Saioa,
I just stated using tex (latex) and you can create great documents with
relative easy. I used a command 'pdflatex $FILE.tex' to produce pdf
files. 
HTH
- -Kev

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