Re: [arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
On or about Friday 15 May 2009 at approximately 23:42:07 Allan McRae composed: It would be good to add tips like these to the wiki. They are likely to get lost if only posted to the mailing list. Allan Done, See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Print_to_Postscript_--_A_CUPS-PDF_Virtual_Printer_Trick -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration - Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose CUPS-PDF as the printer and then select the checkbox for print to file, hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with print to file before the ps2pdf utility is called. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
Re: [arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote: Listmates, While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me know if this should go to forums instead of here. Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is. The simplest way I have found is to: (1) install cups cups-pdf from extra; (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot) (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select: Administration - Find New Printers Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF) Make: Generic Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer Done! Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose CUPS-PDF as the printer and then select the checkbox for print to file, hit print and enter the filename.ps and 'print' Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the background, you are simply stopping the process with print to file before the ps2pdf utility is called. It would be good to add tips like these to the wiki. They are likely to get lost if only posted to the mailing list. Allan
