[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

Sat Mar 31 12:50:30 CEST 2012

On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:36 +0100, Donald Stewart wrote:
+> On 31 March 2012 11:31, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:22, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
+> >>
+> >>
+> >> On a similar note, what ever happened to a standard PDF printer setup in
+> >> the mcc (printerdrake is gone I believe) . . .  When I choose set up
+> >> printers, I can only add physical and networked printers, but no option
+> >> to add a PDF printer.  It was very helpful to have a generic PDF printer
+> >> driver setup as a virtual printer (like PDFcreator)
+> >>
+> >> Anyway, I digress . . . . Thanks again.
+> >
+> >
+> > I think Gtk apps have had the Print to File choice in the list of printers
+> > for a few years
+> 
+> Same for kde, well at least okular and gwenview and the kipi plugins.
+
+I found that cups-pdf wasn't installed which explained why
+system-config-printer didn't see a generic PDF printer.  Oddly enough,
+LibreOffice sees it, but I can't print to it (don't get a dialog to save
+to file) - but I found out when I "print to file" - it worked and made a
+real small output (87k file)
+
+FYI -
+R.Fox
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