how to print to PDF in suse 10.2?

[Tommy Lim KW]

Hi,

Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

Regards,

Tommy

[John D Lamb]

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

Usually you can just select print to PDF instead of using your standard
printer. You can check with

utilities > printing > printing manager

which should list the possibility to print to PDF.

You must have ghostscript installed. You can check from a console by
typing gs, which should start up a postscript viewer.

[jdd]

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?
Regards,
Tommy

AFIAK, any pdf viewver can print

jdd

[c***@cs.its.ac.id]

openoffice => oowriter can do that for u
choose file option ... export as pdf (if i don't wrong)



cheers,


chikaTambun

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?
Regards,
Tommy
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[jdd]

Post by jdd

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

AFIAK, any pdf viewver can print

sorry, I misread the post. to print TO pdf, usde kprinter under kde or
print to file then use ps2pdf

jdd

[James Knott]

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

If you're running the KDE desktop, you can use Kprinter to print to PDF.

[Jan Tiggy]

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

Well the build in solution are not that convenient. You can use
OpenOffice or KDE-Printing-System for doing so (I don't know gnome, sorry).
But IMO the most convenient solution is to use the distiller.ppd with
Cups. Check this out:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Setting_up_a_PDF_printer_in_CUPS_in_my_case_in_Slackware

There is also an extended how-to where you can also use sendmail for
delivery if needed.

Thx
Jan

[James Knott]

Post by jdd

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Hi,
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?
Regards,
Tommy

AFIAK, any pdf viewver can print

I think he wants to create a PDF, not read one.

[Carlos E. R.]

Post by Tommy Lim KW
Just wondering how to print to PDF in suse 10.2? Any software do i need
to install?

It should work out of the box. There many ways, depending on what program
you want to use and from what environment.

For instance, kde print manager has a virtual pdf printer. OpenOffice can
both export to pdf and print to pdf (internally) if you create the printer
with "/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/spadmin". Or you can install a
pseudoprinter with cups. There is another solution via email, I have
heard.

There is also a manual way: any program can usually print to file, which
in Linux means a postscript file, and these can be converted to pdf using
ps2pdf script, which is part of the typical installation.

There are other tools if you use latex, allowing indexes and extra things.

There is pdftk to manipulate pdfs afterwards.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

[Jan Tiggy]

Jan,
Thxs!!

You're welcome m8.
Btw, if you cannot print then check the rights of the target folder.
Cups and users needs an access to it. Furthermore you can also put the
target folder on a nfs export, a samba folder or just use sendmail or
postfix for delivery, depending on your configuration and your needs. Enjoy.

Thx
Jan

PS: Plz consider not to replay private. Thx.