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PDF printing in Ubuntu
One of the things I have a tendency to do is save licence key - web confirmation pages to a pdf by printing. It gives a good capture of the document and saves me from actually having another paper to…
One of the things I have a tendency to do is save licence key - web confirmation pages to a pdf by printing. It gives a good capture of the document and saves me from actually having another paper to find a place to file. But, ubuntu (dapper) doesn't seem to be setup for pdf printing by default. Fortunately, it's not too hard to set up.... install cups-pdf (apt-get install cups-pdf), navigate to System -> Administration -> Printing and doubleclick to add a new printer... no pdf printer is detected... there must be work to do (click cancel). As root ("sudo nautilus") navigate to Filesystem, then /usr/lib/cups/backend - right click cups-pdf and select properties and check "set user id". Now, try to add a printer again and you should see PDF Printer, add it with the Generic, Postscript Color Printer (Rev 3b) driver, name it PDF-printer or something like that and now you should have PDF's dropped into a folder in your home directory named PDF.