How to configure CUPS

[Jay Moore]

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 08:07, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> > You're thinking about:
> > existing PDF -> programs -> paper.
> > 
> > The rest of the thread is about:
> > existing document *NOT* in PDF format (say, Abiword) -> print system ->
> > PDF *instead* of paper.
> > 
> > "Printing" to PDF is close enough to printing to paper that it makes
> > sense to use the same mechanisms to produce a PDF.
> > 
> I just what to be sure I am learning what I think I am learning. Is
> what is  being referred to is the possibility that cups can take a document
> is some arbitrary format and produce a document in pdf format. Not
> print it just produce a pdf file. 

Yes - once CUPS-PDF is installed you can do that. You may want to read
the entire thread, but here's the link to the "essential ingredient":

> Have you installed cups-pdf? It is found at 
> http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/