On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 12:54, 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? All of them > (except for galeon/epiphany which don't use cups anyway) are already > capable of creating PDF documents.
I'd say for all of the other applications out there which don't use gnomeprint, so they too can write PDF files. gnome-cups-manager just makes it easy to add it to the system as a printer so that all apps can use it. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF