Comments on: How To Print to PDF in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and Jaunty Jackalope

By: Jamaal Turli

Jamaal Turli — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:36:36 +0000

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By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:00:38 +0000

I have the Benji’s problem. The pdf printer works only with ~/PDF. When I change the folder the printer doesn’t create the output files. This is the log entry:
Mon Sep 21 11:52:45 2009 [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file (non fatal) (/home/stefan/documents/pdf/Ryanair.pdf)

By: Benji

Benji — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:05:51 +0000

Actually, scratch that. I fixed it.

I didn’t like the idea of PDFs getting dumped in a directory in home when they’re clearly documents, so I’d changed the path to ${HOME}/Documents/PDF

Apparently it did not like this.

By: Benji

Benji — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:57:30 +0000

I’m not getting anything. The printer shows up just fine, and everything seems good, but no files

By: saleh

saleh — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:09:38 +0000

worked ;D
nice and thanks

By: Will

Will — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:58:12 +0000

Printing a Multimap page of text and images using this cups-pdf made the images and some text look blurred, despite increasing resolution to 600dpi.

Printing to ps or pdf using the normal Firefox way gave much sharper images and text but the start of the lines were missing.

Filesize of printout is much bigger with cups-pdf too.

Any ideas how to make images look better with cups?

By: Csaba

Csaba — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:41:11 +0000

Hi, my problem is xp clients to a PDC via samba (with latest ubuntu server) I am not able to connect to any printer.
It say something like: “group policies prevent connecting to this printer”.
I have been trying to fix this for several days.

can someone assist me how to solve this?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:55:58 +0000

Thank you for posting this article! I use the pdf printer a lot and was really missing it!

By: ian

ian — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:26:14 +0000

OK, why in the world would intrepid and jaunty remove something like this. It was awsome option in previous dists. Made much more sense than the microsoft uncompatible format print to file option in windows.

I don’t know why developers would even have the thought cross there minds on something so far away from anything having to do with improving Ubuntu. It’s like someone said “Hey I’m bored. I think I’ll remove the print to pdf option just for fun!”

Thanks for the post. I would have just installed cups-pdf and been wondering why it doesn’t work had you not posted this line.
sudo chmod +s /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf