David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
Listmates,
While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me
know if this should go to forums instead of here.
Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want
to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to
kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is.
The simplest way I have found is to:
(1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra;
(2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups
(Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot)
(3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select:
Administration -> Find New Printers
Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF)
Make: Generic
Driver: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
Done!
Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the
printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter
the filename.ps and 'print'
Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the
background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before
the ps2pdf utility is called.
It would be good to add tips like these to the wiki. They are likely to
get lost if only posted to the mailing list.
Allan
