Ubuntu: Print to PDF or PDF Export

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Creating PDF-files from almost any application under Windows is easy using PDFCreator. PDFCreator provide a printer driver, which is exposed to the user as any other printer, so the user use it like a printer in Word, Excel or any other Windows application.

For Linux or Ubuntu Linux cups-pdf provides the same functionality.

Install it easily using this:

$sudo aptitude install cups-pdf

Restart your printing service (CUPS) using:

$sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

Then you should be able to add a new printer (System->Administration->Printing) selecting the “Local Printer” “PDF Printer” option. In the next step choose “Generic Printer” and then used the “Postscript Color Printer (Ver 3)” driver.

Newly setup printer should now be able to print pdf-files.

Thanks to this post:

http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/03/23/print-to-pdf-using-cups-pdf/

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3 Comments »

  1. Ramesh B said,

    January 31, 2008 @ 6:24

    when I run the command:

    $sudo aptitude install cups-pd

    the result is:

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states… Done
    Building tag database… Done
    No candidate version found for cups-pdf
    No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
    upgraded.
    Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
    Writing extended state information… Done

    Nothing happens. Why?

  2. Ashlayne said,

    May 25, 2008 @ 10:39

    I’m by no means an expert (just got addicted to Ubuntu a few weeks ago), but it may not be available for your Linux flavor.

    If you go through Synaptic Package Manager (at least in Hardy) and search for the program, Synaptic will find it if it’s available for your Linux flavor. That’s what I love about Synaptic!

  3. k said,

    September 1, 2010 @ 1:21

    i did it but with this difference:

    $ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
    * Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ OK ]

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