CUPS-PDF
CUPS-PDF is a PDF writer backend for CUPS. It is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver. It will convert files printed to its queue in CUPS to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure. It can execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results to the user.
| Tags | Office/Business printing Utilities |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Mac OS X POSIX Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 05 Oct 2011 01:49
Release Notes: A non-freed pointer was fixed, as well as an invalid line in the configuration file caused by a typo. Some detailed copyright information was included with the user contributions to CUPS-PDF.
- 02 Oct 2011 15:54
Release Notes: An experimental option for coping with various unusual line delimiters that led to errors in the past was added. Supplementary groups are now set in addition to the primary one, to allow parts of the path to be accessible only through those supplementary groups of the printing user.
- 19 Feb 2011 08:13
Release Notes: A crash due to an uninitialized pointer was fixed and the logging mechanism for crashes was improved. Recognition of untitled documents via stdin was extended and job labels can now be set before and after the document name. In the contributed files, several bashisms were removed from the SELinux-contribution.
- 26 Jan 2009 18:14
Release Notes: A new option to truncate long filenames was introduced. The spool file is now also purged on errors, and failed chmod() on the output file is treated as non-fatal. Updates and additions to the documentation were made, and the additional changelog was removed from the source code.
- 22 Jun 2008 13:53
Release Notes: A memory allocation that was too small for the postprocessing string was fixed. Further, the bundled SELinux .te-file was updated and a typographical error in the documentation was corrected.
Recent comments
Love how easy it is to setup and get running. Only thing is how hard would it be to add functionality to print to differnt folder locations based on different print queues?
Example would be someone needs to print to a community share for one queue and another group needs to print to another community share in landscape.
Hello guys, this is a GREAT project.
However I dare to ask for a truly minor feature, which I think would be very useful to a lot of people out there, and so easy to implement. As far as I can tell, cups-pdf writes PDF files using the name of the job/file/whatever... This is good BUT a problem arises when a file with that name already exists. Why not to add a suffix like (1), (2), (3), (4), ecc. in that case, so that one can print many different documents with the same name without bothering about older files being overwritten? There is a lot of crappy windows software that behaves like that, which would greatly benefit a simple feature like this. Regards.
Are there any plans to preserve the hyperlinks in a PDF such as when called to print an HTML page from a browser such as Firefox? I would ask for an option that could be turned on or off. In OpenOffice.org, the export to PDF does preserve the hyperlinks. Thank you.
vrbehr
10 Mar 2006 14:56
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