On 04/02/2008 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works > > quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pdfs. > > apt-cache show cups-pdf > > Although the description is a bit vague. I would expect "allows you to > print pdf documents with cups" although it seems in a round about way to > suggest it is possible.
Hey Chris, as Jochen already pointed out, cups-pdf provides a virtual printer to the cups system that writes the output to a pdf file - instead of provinding support for printing pdfs to a printer. I think the description of the package is quite clear: CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can be used as a virtual printer in a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS. 'a virtual printer in a paperless network' should be clear enough ;-) unfortunately, it seems like this problem is not too common. at least nobody else answered yet to my original message. greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
