CUPS-PDF printing

I've downloaded CUPS-PDF from "https://bitbucket.org/codepoet/cups-pdf-for-mac-os-x/wiki/Home" and installed it following the instructions included therein.
The only instruction I could not follow is to pick "Generic postscript color printer"; I could pick "Generic postscript printer" though.
CUPS-PDF shows in the printer list.
CUPS-PDF apparently prints as indicated by the progress bar.
But, the print doesn't show anywhere on my computer:
The output is not in /Users/Shared/CUPS-PDF in a folder with my user account's name.
I did make an alias to this folder on my desktop but it only contains two folders: "my user name" and "SPOOL"
The first folder had a "clone" of the download source page (which I deleted.)
SPOOL has nothing in it.
I've never had a problem using CUPS-PDF while on OS X 10.4.11, something I'll never be able to revert to.
I'll be eternally grateful to you if you could help me with this issue but, on condition that you use a language as plain as English since my expertise with OS X, which was never as considerable as to be able to use terminal to any advantage, nor understanding terms such as sudos and the like, is now even diminished on account of the new OS I am forced to use from now on.
Thank you all so much for your help.

It seems no one has read my question; too bad...

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* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/984082
-> this insinuates that it might be an upstream-bug.
I think I read somewhere that cups has changed from PDF to PS as the 'backend', and that means that a PDF that used to be fed directly to the printer, now has to be converted to PS. This same change has given me lots of headaches to print from libreoffice...

Cups-pdf produces ugly , hardly readable documents

I think the title of the post says it all. System is up to date, cups-pdf setup is as in the wiki.
To illustrate what I mean, here is a sample image (try to view it full-size).
Left side created with cups-pdf, right side with the built-in "save as pdf" function of chromium.
I do not know if that is important, but the document created by chromium uses DajaVuSans fonts, but the one created by cups-pdf uses "Unknown - Type3 - embedded" fonts.
By the way, I have not used cups-pdf for a while, but I remember having created quality documents with it.
What is the problem there?
Last edited by scar (2014-10-10 15:57:10)

I have the same problem, and found this, it's not a solution!
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Printing/2005/Jan/msg00024.html
For the time being, if I want to print in landscape, I'll print it out in pdf and lpr on the command line!

Virtual PDF-printer in Photoshop

Hello,
I'm not able to 'print' PFD's in Photoshop CS4 on my mac. I think there's no virtual PDF-printer installed. I can't find a way to add it.
* Can I add a virtual printer on my mac, that's compatable with photoshop?
* Is there some software to print it with?
* Is there an other way to make PFD (not just by save as PDF) in Photoshop?
Thanks a lot!
Fransiscus

Fransiscus, jere are the two links I read in order to create a virtual PDF printer under OS X 10.6.1 on my MacBook Pro:
   CUPS_PDF Package for Mac OS X
   http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx
   A Virtual Printer for OS X
   http://www.windley.com/archives/2009/09/avirtual_printer_for_osx.shtml
There's some extended background discussion here:
   CUPS-PDF - A free virtual PDF printer
   http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007082812233971
...ben

Acrobat 7 PDF Printer

For those trying to get the PDF Printer device from Adobe Acrobat or CS2 to work in 10.5.x, here's a short guide to getting it going despite Adobe's claims that it can't be fixed.
First, make sure that you've got the latest version of Acrobat 7 install (7.1.0 at the time of this writing). Then, from within Acrobat, select the "Help->Detect and Repair" menu item. Make sure that "Adobe PDF Printer" is checked, click "Continue" and let it do its thing. Once it's done, you'll have the "Adobe PDF 7.0" printer listed in your "Print & Fax" control panel.
Next, open the Terminal using an account with Admin privileges and type:
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf700
That should take care of it—at least, it did for me. YMMV.

If you upgraded to VISTA X64, you also likely upgraded OFFICE also to OFFICE 2007. Both VISTA and OFFICE 2007 require AA8.1.2 I think (Vista had problems with earlier AA8 versions). Thus, AA7 is an issue that you are lucky if you get it to work in those environments. Actually it would be nice if MS would quit messing up their OS so that other software has to be upgraded. Adobe works at a rather low level of the system and getting all the bugs out when trying to follow MS specifications is apparently a real pain (think MS makes their specs kind of crazy on purpose - and folks often need to complain to MS rather than the software vendors). You might have heard that MS had to add their help system back in after the fact (they had purposely removed it from VISTA) since their own OFFICE products used the help system. Apparently a lot of companies also complained about Netmeeting that originally was dropped from VISTA and a new version was added that is VISTA compatible. Bill

Printing to virtual pdf printer

Prior to updating to snow leopard, we were able to select FILE - PRINT and choose an Adobe PDF 9.0 virtual printer - the doc would be converted to pdf and show up on desktop.
Now that we've updated, we go thru the same sequence... everything looks normal (the PDF printer shows that it's working) - but we're not able to find the converted pdf file anywhere.
I realize we can just print and then save as a pdf - but need to regain the ability to print to a virtual printer due to some limitations in Fusion

Apple made a change to the security model in Snow Leopard and Adobe was unable or unwilling to update the virtual printer. CUPS-PDF provides the same functionality but was able to make the necessary 3 minute coding change that Adobe couldn't.
Here are the details on the whole sordid story: https://discussions.apple.com/message/13348075#13348075
Message was edited by: etresoft to provide details

[CUPS] Documents print with no margin on top of the page

Hello people!
I'm having a weird issue when I print documents. Whatever I print, from whatever application I print, it seems that the top margin is reduced. For instance, I have PDF documents with a one-inch top margin. The margin appears to be okay on the on-screen, but does not appear when printed out.
I've tried playing with the options in the GNOME print dialog, to no avail. I also tried reinstalling my printer's driver, also to no avail. I have read something on the Internets saying it has to do with KDE print dialog, but I don't use KDE. I have kdebase installed, though.
Anyhow, let me know if you have any thoughts and/or need any info.
Thanks!

in case it helps, these are the package versions I have installed:
jcosta@jcosta-uportable:~$ sudo pacman -Q | grep -i fooma
foomatic-db 4.0.6_20101215-1
foomatic-db-engine 4.0.6_20101215-1
foomatic-db-nonfree 4.0.6_20101215-1
foomatic-filters 4.0.6_20101215-1
jcosta@jcosta-uportable:~$
jcosta@jcosta-uportable:~$ sudo pacman -Q | grep -i cups
cups 1.4.6-2
cups-pdf 2.5.1-1
cups-pk-helper 0.1.2-1
lib32-libcups 1.5.0-1
libcups 1.5.0-1

PDF printing issues [SOLVED]

Ever since cups got a major upgrade I've had constant problems printing PDF-documents. I've searched and looked for solutions for more than a month. My guess was that I had messed something up by installing some kind of conflicting package that I couldn't track down. However since I made a fresh install the other day on a new SSD I could get a fresh start.
Printer: HL-Brother 5370DW
Cups and its dependencies: updated according to stable repositories with nothing added from AUR or modified packages
Issues before on older install:
- pdf printing, using common Linux tools, resultet in documents filled with thin grey lines
- Acroread would work but then it doesn't have the same dependencies
Issues on fresh install:
- pdf printing works... but screw up font size and page layout (font size is for whatever reason bigger, marginals smaller, and paragraphs that don't fit are seen as thin grey lines as described earlier)
- Acroread still works
Debugging of cups don't give much since there's no obvious errors. Related to the printer the following can be noted:
D [12/Jul/2012:12:45:05 +0200] [Job 9] Inserted workaround PostScript code for Brother printers
D [12/Jul/2012:12:45:05 +0200] [Job 9] Page = 595x842; 12,12 to 583,830
D [12/Jul/2012:12:45:05 +0200] [Job 9] slow_collate=0, slow_duplex=0, slow_order=0
D [12/Jul/2012:12:45:05 +0200] [Job 9] Before copy_comments - %!PS-Adobe-3.0
A haven't noticed any issues besides the PDF related ones. Maybe it's related to the same possible reason as some suggest, a conflict between poppler and cups filter. Debugging of cups gives this:
D [12/Jul/2012:12:45:05 +0200] PID 7342 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf) exited with no errors.
Does anyone know a solution for Brother printers like mine? Is there a solution in the pipeline that I could test?
Last edited by KimTjik (2012-08-23 18:09:01)

A quick Google search gives me some interesting results, f.e.:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1021190
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/984082
-> this insinuates that it might be an upstream-bug.
I think I read somewhere that cups has changed from PDF to PS as the 'backend', and that means that a PDF that used to be fed directly to the printer, now has to be converted to PS. This same change has given me lots of headaches to print from libreoffice...

Network/Server PDF Printer

I would like to create pdf documents from any device on the network that can print to a network printer. Essentially, I'd like to create a print que on the server to capture print jobs and store them on the server rather than print them. Any ideas of how to accomplish this?

Maybe you could try CUPS-PDF https://bitbucket.org/codepoet/cups-pdf-for-mac-os-x/wiki/Home
Install it on the server then share the printer and the PDF output folder?

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