On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mar 09/03/2004 à 13:13, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit : > > CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. It can be used to provide > > a virtual printer to a paperless network or to perform testing on CUPS. > > . > > The optional Gnome package gnome-cups-manager is capable of auto-detecting > > this backend as a suitable printer and to offer to install it for you. > > What's the point of this backend for GNOME applications?
It has _nothing_ to do with GNOME. It's a generic CUPS printer driver. Using this driver, any application - GUI or commandline - can produce PDF documents formatted for the locale's paper size, as configured by CUPS. -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/