On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
... Why do you need to bypass CUPS?Thanks, it's just for debugging. Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers hang here. To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed to accept postscript level 3).
Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. Stroller.
