converting text to pdf

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/16/13 20:41, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/16/13 19:33, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 06/16/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 06/16/13 18:29, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>> Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You could install cups-pdf then use any tool you like
>>>> such as?
>>> Such as lpr.
>>>
>>> Installing cups-pdf creates a printer called Cups-PDF.
>>>
>>> So, you would use....
>>>
>>> lpr -P Cups-PDF whatever
>>>
>>> And you'd get a whatever.pdf on your desktop (default behavior).
>>>
>> Ed,
>>
>> In my /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf, the default output is:
>>
>>
>> ### Default: /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Joachim Backes
>>
> Here, on F18 it is....
>
> ### Default: /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}
>
> #Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}
> Out ${DESKTOP}
>
> So, Out is defined thus making it put the Output on the Desktop...
>

And what I meant to add was that this is a newly installed package....so by "default" I meant the Fedora configured "default" and not the "default" if "Out" is undefined in the config file.  :-)

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