Re: Printing PDF from FireFox

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:25:13 -0800, Rich Rudnick <nickrud@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:00 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> > Jonas Gall wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:56:06 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> > >
> > >>Doh ! I was sure it was there :)
> > >>
> > >>What package(s) is my sid machine missing to get a Print to PDF function
> > >>in my Firefox browser ?
> > >
> > > Xprint has support for printing PDFs - take a look at the xprt-xprintorg package
> > >
> > > Jonas
> >
> > Jonas,
> > I am somewhat worried that xprt will interfere with my CUPS subsystems.
> > Or am I wrong ?
> 
> Something I've used with (some) success is cupsys-pdf. It adds a pdf
> printer to cups, and drops the generated pdf in ~/cups-pdf.

It's 'cups-pdf'.  And it works fine with Firefox.  There was a time
when the maintainer dropped Postscript support (which cups-pdf
requires) but that's no longer the case.

Patrick