Print pdf tidbit

Richard D. Williams richard at appgrp.net
Mon Nov 11 08:37:15 PST 2013


This may not be news for many on this list, but I just figured this out.

My client wants me to print a PDF file stored on our Linux server to a 
specific printer  at a specific time.

The timing it not important. But, since Filepro uses raw printing, I 
never had to print a PDF document to directly to a printer on a Linux 
system.

This is what I did: (Centos Linux)

# cd /usr/share/cups/model
# gunzip laserjet.ppd.gz
# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p TESTPDF -v socket://richard:9100 -E -P 
/usr/share/cups/model/laserjet.ppd

Now I can just use a system command lp -PTESTPDF mypdfdocument.PDF.
It prints perfectly.

Hope this helps someone,

Richard D. Williams



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