Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> I was the happiest of Evince user, with only a vague, remote remembrance
> of Acrobut horrors... until... this werid PDF document for work came,
> claiming it contains some forms and can only be opened with Adobe's
> Acrobat bloat... After trying almost any available PDF reader on linux I
> reluctantly download the thing, installed it and correctly opened the
> document.
Saddly, there's a bunch of complex PDF files out there that can be only
managed with Acrobat Reader :-(
> Now, I was hoping to find the familiar "Print to file" printer do a pdf
> or ps print and get rid of Acrobat as soon as possible (in fact, for
> example it had already seemed to have hijacked my firefox pdf behaviour
> without anyone asking it to).
> Turns out this is not possible and the only other options (apart from
> the physical printers) is a lp command...
GNOME and KDE DE usually provide such a virtual printer for getting PDF
and PS from almost any viewable file. Another standalone applications
(like the LibreOffice suite) also allow to export to PDF.
> Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat
> printer called, unsurprisingly, "PDF". But, when I try printing with
> that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative message
> showing lpr usage.
I also have cups-pdf installed and works pretty fine. What kind of
document did you try to print? And how did you manage to print (directly
from command line, from specific app...)?
> his does not happen with, say, libreoffice which will correctly print a
> document to my ~/PDF directory.
You mean that printing to cups-pdf from LO document works fine?
Also, remember that there are some PDF files that you wont be able to
print from Acrobat Reader because the PDF file itself can have
restrictions or limitations that Acrobat Reader has to apply because this
application conforms to DRM rules :-(
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
Reply to: