Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:00:45 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: weif@weif.net Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a PDF printer Message-ID: <495FD1FD.9010309@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200901032022.n03KMKbm017609@maxine.cjones.org> References: <200901031941.n03Jf8EJ020954@maxine.cjones.org> <18783.50589.313277.343221@almost.alerce.com> <200901032022.n03KMKbm017609@maxine.cjones.org>
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Keith Seyffarth wrote:
>> If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf
>> port/package.
>>
>> You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME.
>
> I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a
> printer for this machine at some point in the future (at which point
> I'll have to figure out how to get printing to a printer working).
>
> When I run
> # which cups
>
> the response is:
> cups: Command not found.
>
> would
> # portinstall cups
> install this printing option? or would I have to install something
> else?
CUPS doesn't actually install a binary called 'cups'. It installs
a bunch of replacements for the standard printer commands lp, lpr,
lpq, lprm etc. and a number of daemons including cupsd.
If you want to check whether you have installed cups already, then
use:
pkg_info -Ix cups
The 'cups-base' package provides the important functionality, but you
should install it as a dependency of the cups meta-port as this will
also include a number of other packages you will need:
portinstall print/cups
To get the print to PDF functionality, then install cups-pdf:
portinstall print/cups-pdf
You'll then have to follow the instructions to enable cups and generate
print queues and so forth.
Cheers,
Matthew
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