Printing to PDF File in Ubuntu
Posted by tux4life on January 12, 2009
We all know that OpenOffice has a very nice feature to export any document to a PDF file.
But still, I was looking for a solution to print to a PDF file. Yet again, with google’s help I found out that this functionality is provided by the package cups-pdf.
Follow the steps below to install and configure this package.
Open up a terminal and use the following command to install this package.
sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
Restart the printer service using
sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
Finally, open up the printer configuration dialog using
System -> Administration -> Printing
Add a new printer by selecting “PDF Printer”, continue by selecting defaults.
Now when printing, you can select the newly created printer to print to a PDF file.
