[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

Sat Mar 31 20:59:26 CEST 2012

Am 31.03.2012 12:50, schrieb Robert Fox:
+> 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
+>
+>
+>
+I'm using simple-scan to scan directly to PDF, it works well,
+it's easy to use, also produces multi-page PDFs, just scan
+all the pages that you want sequentially and then save to
+PDF.
+