I asked on the CUPS list and got the definitive reply, which I tested and confirmed it works great. I am copying here for anyone with CUPS that needs the same facility:
Kurt Pfeifle [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Visit http://printing.kde.org/downloads/. Grab the "PDF distiller script". It is a script that works as a "CUPS backend". Copy it as filename "pdf" to "/usr/lib/cups/backend/", make it world-executable and re-start cupsd. Install a "printer", connected to the backend: "lpadmin -p PDFcreator -v pdf:/home/chris/PDFfiles -E -P /path/to/distiller.ppd" (for distiller.ppd you can take a PPD designed for Acrobat Distiller.) This printer "PDFcreator" is handled like any other by CUPS: appearing in every clients' browse list, automatically available, taking as input any file format CUPS can handle (text, PostScrpt, graphic, HP/GL...), etc. All generated PDF files will be saved under a unique name in the directory "/home/chris/PDFfiles" (which you need to create too). Of course, you can direct it somewhere else, like a Samba [PDF-file-share], to make it accessible to all Windows users for retrieval... The distiller.ppd is not working 100% with the "real" engine inside the backend script (which calls Ghostscript's 'ps2pdf' to do the job) -- meaning not all selectable options are really used; someone needs to write a PPD which is reflecting "ps2pdf"'s abilities 100%. But the basic setup works extremly well.... Cheers, Kurt [Uhmmm... the script was written by KDEPrint wizard Michael Goffioul; but it has nothing "KDE" specific in it and it is *not* the same as the "Print to File (PDF)" special printer that is in the list of any current KDE print dialog...] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
