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CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
I was able to get this working for 10.6 by using different directories. Instead ofI used You could also have a subdirectory of /var/spool/cups-pdf to match the printer name. Of course, ensure that permissions are set appropriately for whatever directory you specify here.
CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
This is the way to go. Apparently Snow Leopard is VERY restrictive when it comes to where it allows this printer driver to write files.
CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
CUPS-PDF v 2.5.0 is out and it works great in Snow Leopard. Download v 2.5 from http://freshmeat.net/projects/cupspdf/.
cd /Users/username/Downloads/cups-pdf-2.5.0/src Compile cups-pdf in the /src directory of the downloaded folder using gcc -O9 -s -o cups-pdf cups-pdf.cCopy the compiled code sudo cp cups-pdf /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf The instructions state to install to /usr/lib/cups/backend which is wrong. You need to install to /usr/libexec/cups/backendEnsure you sudo chmod 0700 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdfPer the instructions you will need to edit cups-pdf.conf. Edit the following lines in the .conf file: GhostScript /usr/bin/pstopdf
GSCall %s %s -o %s %s
PDFVerCopy the edited cups-pdf.conf file to /etc/cups. All of your PDFs will be saved to /var/spool/cups-pdf/username As mentioned above, creating a symlink to /var/spool/cups-pdf/ to my desktop worked perfectly. sudo ln -s /var/spool/cups-pdf/username /Users/username/Desktop/CUPS-PDFsI also created a desktop PDF printer by option-dragging the printer to my desktop. Now I can just drag a stack of files onto the desktop printer and they are converted to PDFs and easily accessed in a folder on my desktop.
CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
I could not compile the source code :(
CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
These instructions did the trick, thank you so much! Creating the alias is really helpful as well.
CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
This worked perfectly, both in Snow Leopard and Leopard (PPC). BTW, you can also copy the provided CUPS-PDF PPD to its location, as described in the source Read Me: "In case you want to use the color PostScript driver that comes with CUPS-PDF go to the extra/ subdirectory and copy CUPS-PDF.ppd to your CUPS model directory (usually /usr/share/cups/model [ /Generic ] )." This will show up as "Generic CUPS-PDF Printer" when setting up the printer in System Preferences. |
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