Configure cups printing server on centos tech poli. The older version of cups pdf would create a pdf file in which i could select and copy text. If suitable one is none, select any one, this is not important because suitable driver is needed on client. This software is designed to produce pdf files in a heterogeneous network by providing a pdf printer on the central fileserver. Fedora remi collet maintains rpm packages for fedora, rhel, and centos which are available. How to print to a pdf file in red hat enterprise linux red hat. Hi, i am trying to get a printer hooked up to my server and am told i need cups installed. Installing and configuring the cupspdf virtual printer driver. Therefore, if you want to install the cups driver to print to a pdf file, you.
Make sure the package zenity is installed it should be, by default, with sabayon linux. This has introduced a feature which is i find totally unacceptable. Looking for a thing like a printer that creates output as direct pdf like cupspdf. Centos offers the one you would install using yum if you enabled that. I am trying to get the server to act as a print server and know next to nothing about linux. This page was last edited on 5 february 2019, at 06. Dose any one know a different way to get a pdf printer for centos. Download cups pdf packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware, ubuntu. It is available under the gpl and is packaged for many different distributions or can be built directly out of the source files. My uses for it is just to turn a website page into a pdf format for offline viewing. I have networking set up and the centos 5 is a host to a windows xp guest using vmware. I install the package netprintcupspdf and use the cups printer manager. For opensuse packages are maintained at their build service.