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Simon Waters wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> I'm sure that a fairly recent version of CUPS supports a PDF printer >> driver (and will print to PDF from any application which supports CUPS). > > CUPS definitely does this. > > I filed a bug report about this with Debian BTS, because at the critical > moment of setting it up (under Debian with GNOME) you need to magically > know the full path name of a Postscript printer driver (and that this is > what is required), which is the kind of thing that puts end users off > Debian. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406379 > > Yeah, I thought it did. I had a quick play on my laptop (running Ubuntu 7.10). It seemed to print although I couldn't for the life of me find the PDF file it created. I'll have another go some other time when I have a bit more time. Great idea though for those apps which don't support PDF export. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html