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From: David Empson on 7 Apr 2010 06:41
Chris Schram <schram(a)webenet.net> wrote:

> In article <tom_stiller-40D7A0.20034806042010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <4bbb8379$0$4871$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
> > Father Walt <Walt(a)bitbucket.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone here have CUPS-PFD working on Snow Leopard ?? I've tried
> > > every hint that has been provided by the development community, and I
> > > just can't seem to get it to work at all. I can "print" to cups-pdf,
> > > but nothing shows up in the folder, or on my system, anywhere. I've
> > > reinstalled, the software many times, and the SL a few times already.
> > > That's one piece of software I really miss when I went to SL. Any
> > > ideas ???
> > >
> > > -- Father Walt
> > > The faulty interface lies between the chair and the keyboard.
> >
> > Yes. See <http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx> for
> > details.
>
> The information on that page is correct, but incomplete. If you google
> <CUPS-PDF Snow Leopard> you get a number of hits on the first page that
> are all about the same. The one I'm about to reference is at
> <http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/PrintFromCrossover>, simply
> because it presents the solution in a fairly clean format. Here's what
> to do:
>
> In Terminal type:
>
> sudo chmod 0700 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf
> sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf
> sudo open /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
>
> NOTE: I found that the open command in line 3 to be problematic, so I
> used 'edit' to open /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf in TextWranger. Whatever
> text editor you like, it must be able to edit a file owned by root.
>
> Change the line Out ${HOME}/Desktop/cups-pdf to be Out
> /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}
>
> NOTE: My cups-pdf.conf file had a trailing slash (/) on that line.
> Leaving the slash out worked for me.
>
> Save the cups-pdf.conf file.
>
> In Terminal type:
>
> sudo ln -s /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER} ~/Documents/CUPS-PDF
>
> I used Desktop instead of Documents. That's a matter of personal
> preference. Also instead of creating the soft link in the above command,
> I chose to drag an Alias from the referenced folder and renaming it
> cups-pdf. Using an Alias allows for using a custom icon, again a matter
> of personal preference.
>
> Proceed with installing the CUPS-PDF driver according to the old
> instructions.
>
> I have verified that this procedure, along with my personal-preference
> modifications works perfectly under the latest version of Snow Leopard.

Thanks for the reference, Chris. I can confirm this method works for me
as well.

I didn't need to do the "sudo chown" as cups-pdf was already owned by
root:wheel.
--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
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