Monday, February 11, 2019

Ubuntu 16 - Setting PDF Printer


List of printers installed
$ls /etc/cups/ppd

Manually
Device URI:cups-pdf:/

By Command Line (Partial tested)
lpadmin -h localhost -p cups-pdf -v cups-pdf:/ -P /usr/share/cups/model/CUPS-PDF.ppd -E



Setting file (output/destination)
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf

Status Idle - File "/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" has insecure permissions

$chmod 700 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

Null Printer
Device URI: file:/dev/null


References:
[1] Complete info https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_to_PDF

[2] openSUSE compile cups-pdf and ppd file https://pawn.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/documentation.shtml
[3] CUPS PDF-WRITER Backend on Suse https://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html

[4] Fake printer https://superuser.com/questions/304670/how-to-add-a-fake-dummy-null-printer-in-cups
[5] Install cups-pdf http://www.debianadmin.com/howto-install-and-customize-cups-pdf-in-debian.html

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