Bug#237028: ITP: cups-pdf -- PDF printer backend for CUPS
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 09/03/2004 à 13:13, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit :
> > CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. It can be used to provide
> > a virtual printer to a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS.
> > .
> > The optional Gnome package gnome-cups-manager is capable of auto-detecting
> > this backend as a suitable printer and to offer to install it for you.
>
> What's the point of this backend for GNOME applications?
It has _nothing_ to do with GNOME. It's a generic CUPS printer driver.
Using this driver, any application - GUI or commandline - can produce PDF
documents formatted for the locale's paper size, as configured by CUPS.
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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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