Installing a PDF Printer on Ubuntu
Getting a printer installed on Ubuntu is easy, plug-and-play generally works. Getting a PDF printer working is also easy. To install it, one has to open a terminal or Synaptic (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager).
In a terminal, enter:
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
It will ask you for your password when you press enter. Or in Synaptic, do a search for: cups-pdf.
Now one step that has to be done manually otherwise it doesn’t work. In your home directory, create a folder called PDF (all in caps).
After this, you’ll see an option for PDF in the printer’s list, and printing to PDF.
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Rupert
thanx – as simple as that! It worked
.nupe flossberg
great tip. thanks a ton!!
Art Bracher
Very slick. it just fell into place. It’s wasn’t obvious (to me) that the PDF file which is created becomes the destination for the pdf printer output, but I figured it out.
Henry Steele
Works great and is so simple. Thanks.