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Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy



On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:03:26 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog:
> > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16
> > Feb for details.
> 
> I did find your blog a few days ago and considered going back to lprng
> and magicfilter and all.  I think I would miss the cups-pdf plug-in as I
> use it quite a lot with programs that can't export directly to PDF as
> with Libre Office.

There is File/Print.../Print to File to output in PDF format. It renders
cups-pdf superfluous. Do some of your programs not provide it?

Also, using cups-pdf on testing/unstable is questionable as CUPS has PDF
(previously Postscript) as its output for all jobs. cups-pdf is not made
for processing PDF.


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