printing pdf files?

[James McDonald]

dep wrote:

>a tad of an emergency here, because i have some forms i need to fill out 
>and file, but i can't print the silly things.
>
>i'm running cups and acrobat wants to use /usr/bin/lpr; i do not get 
>anything at all when i allow it to proceed. likewise xpdf. ghostview 
>gives me errors before even loading the file, as does the kde pdf 
>viewer.
>
>so i guess what i'm looking for is the command string necessary to get 
>acrobat to send through cups, i.e., what to say on the line where it 
>says /usr/bin/lpr.
>
>any ideas?
>  
>
I chased down my /usr/bin/lpr file and found it is pointing to 
/usr/bin/lpr-cups.... this was on a Mandrake 9.1 box so yours may be 
different

CUPS uses a lpr/lpd emulation to provide the same function as lpr so all 
you need to do is find the lpr-cups binary and not the original..

Perhaps doing a
rpm -qa | grep -i cups 
and then a
rpm -q <output of last command> --list
to find the correct binary to send it to?

That's if it's a rpm system...