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The Student
Asked: 2011-11-23 11:17:30 +0800 CST

How to install a "pdf printer"?

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Is there a way to install a printer that prints to pdf?

There's a lot of discussions about this in the web foruns, but none seens to work.

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3 Answers

  1. If you've CUPS installed, you can easily add a "PDF Printer" by installing the cups-pdf package:

    sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

    or since Ubuntu 16.04

    sudo apt-get install printer-driver-cups-pdf

    The pdf printer provided by that package will "print" the resulting PDFs into the /home/[user]/PDF directory.

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  2. Best Answer

    Ubuntu ships with this functionality. Try opening gedit Install gedit
    (source: ubuntu.com) or another GUI text editor and clicking the print button:

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    When the Print dialog appears, select the "Print to File" printer and select a location for the PDF. After clicking Print, you should end up with a PDF file in that location containing an identical copy of what would have printed on a sheet of paper.

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  3. Whenever you print , there is already an option for "print to file". I hope you are talking about that.. if not then please elaborate your question

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