Re: PDF-Writer printer?
Hi:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:20:14AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Arrizabalaga, Saioa wrote:
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> > Hello all,
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> > I need a pdf-printer: I have tried with the cups-pdf package, following the installation steps from (http://transtronics.com/reference/print2pdf.htm). Anyway, if anyone knows another package to get my objectives, I would appreciate any help.
> >
> > After completing all the steps in the link before, I have tried to print a plain-text file in this pdf-printer with lp:
> > lp -d pdf_writer_printer -t result.pdf plain_text_file
> >
> > A pdf file is created (although it doesn?t take the name I wanted (result.pdf), it takes the name "job_number-untitled_document.pdf"). Anyway, the created pdf file is always empty (its size is always 321 bytes). I have been looking the logs, and found that there is an error of ESP Ghostscript:
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> > D [29/Nov/2004:17:41:34 +0100] [Job 9] stdin: is not a tty
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> > D [29/Nov/2004:17:41:34 +0100] [Job 9] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> > [snipped]
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> > At the end you will find all the error stack (/var/log/cups/error_log).
> >
> > I don?t know if the error is because I am using lp in an incorrect way, or my cups-pdf configuration is incorrect...
> >
> > Any ideas?
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> >
> >
> > Here you have the stack of the errors: (/var/log/cups/error_log)
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> > [snipped]
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> Hi Saioa,
> I just stated using tex (latex) and you can create great documents with
> relative easy. I used a command 'pdflatex $FILE.tex' to produce pdf
> files.
> HTH
> - -Kev
Saioa:
PDF is easily generated from TeX as noted above (try `LyX' to generate
`LaTeX or TeX' as it is much easier to use), but also easily
generated from any PostScript document. To send `plain text' to PDF,
try the following:
mpage -1 plain-text.file > /tmp/a.ps # convert to PostScript
ps2pdf /tmp/a.ps /tmp/a.pdf # convert to PDF
An alternative to `mpage' is `a2ps'. `ps2pdf' comes with the
ghostscript package `gs'. The companion program `gv' displays both
PostScript and PDF files.
Good printing...
Dean
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