printing pdf files?

[C M Reinehr]

I print PDF's from Acrobat Reader all the time with CUPS. There's two ways 
to do it. Since I also use KDE, I just substitute kprinter for the default 
print command string and AR pipes the postscript to kprinter, from which I 
have access to all of the CUPS options, printers, etc.

The other way is to install the CUPS enabled lpr command. In the case of 
Debian Linux the package is cupsys-bsd, which "provides the BSD commands 
for interacting with CUPS." Chiefly, it includes 'lpr', 'lpc', 'lpq', 
'lprm' along with some libraries & documentation. With this version of lpr 
installed, your print command would be the usual 'lpr -P <printer_name>' 
along with any options you prefer.

Cheers!

cmr

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?

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