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From: Ross Maloney on 5 Jun 2010 23:41 Todd wrote: > On 06/05/2010 02:47 PM, Bud wrote: > >> On 2010-06-05, Todd wrote: >> >> [much snipping] >> >> Just print to a .pdf file and attatch it to your e-mail or >> whatever. I don't know why people want .pdf anyway. You can screw >> around with it any which way you want with many Linux tools. > > > Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird have such utilities, but a lot > of others do not. None of my Wine applications have Post Script > or PDF. And, I need Post Script to fax (HylaFAX). > > PDF's are also a great way to attach quotes and proposals (and > invoices) to eMail. > > -T PDF is the international standard for storing/handling text documents. It has been so for a couple of years. Postscript is the language, and PDF is the format, style, or whatever you like to call it, which PDF talks as defined in the ISO standard. Good quality printers are driven by Postscript internally. The CUPS server sends Postscript to the printer, whether you request a text, Postscript itself, PDF, or whatever type of document to be printed. It does that via 'filters', which is just another name for an inline converter. All text dcuments should now be exchanged as PDF. So, if your utility does not generate or process PDF, get rid of it and get one that does. Ross
From: Bud on 6 Jun 2010 17:47 On 2010-06-06, Todd wrote: > > Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird have such utilities, but a lot > of others do not. None of my Wine applications have Post Script > or PDF. And, I need Post Script to fax (HylaFAX). > > PDF's are also a great way to attach quotes and proposals (and > invoices) to eMail. > -T You can't print to a .pdf file? It is what I do to those who want it in .pdf format. Attatch it and be done with it Oh you have the opportunity to print to .ps too. -- Bud
From: Todd on 7 Jun 2010 01:12 On 06/05/2010 08:41 PM, Ross Maloney wrote: > Todd wrote: >> On 06/05/2010 02:47 PM, Bud wrote: >> >>> On 2010-06-05, Todd wrote: >>> >>> [much snipping] >>> >>> Just print to a .pdf file and attatch it to your e-mail or >>> whatever. I don't know why people want .pdf anyway. You can screw >>> around with it any which way you want with many Linux tools. >> >> >> Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird have such utilities, but a lot >> of others do not. None of my Wine applications have Post Script >> or PDF. And, I need Post Script to fax (HylaFAX). >> >> PDF's are also a great way to attach quotes and proposals (and >> invoices) to eMail. >> >> -T > > PDF is the international standard for storing/handling text documents. > It has been so for a couple of years. Postscript is the language, and > PDF is the format, style, or whatever you like to call it, which PDF > talks as defined in the ISO standard. Good quality printers are driven > by Postscript internally. The CUPS server sends Postscript to the > printer, whether you request a text, Postscript itself, PDF, or whatever > type of document to be printed. It does that via 'filters', which is > just another name for an inline converter. All text dcuments should now > be exchanged as PDF. So, if your utility does not generate or process > PDF, get rid of it and get one that does. > > Ross It would be cool if we all used ODF (Open Document Format), but that is years away. -T
From: Todd on 11 Jun 2010 15:16
> I am using CentOS 5.5. I installed cups-pdf-2.4.6-1.el5.i386.rpm > and now have the nicest CUPS to Postscript printer. Okay, I need > that to use with HylaFAX, but I also need a print to PDF (not > Postscript). What did I do wrong? https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=109167&topic_id=26588&forum=37#forumpost109167 The print dialog you get depends on the desktop environment and the application from which you are printing. Did you select "Print to File" check-box? Is so, don't. The CUPS-Pdf printer creates a PDF file on the desktop with a name of its choosing. Doesn't seem to be any option to pick the name. Picking "Print to File" always seems to create a Postscript file. That can be converted to PDF with ps2pdf from ghostscript. |