[arch-general] Setting up print to postscript in openoffice 3

[Allan McRae]

David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
> Listmates,
>
> 	While I was on the subject, I thought I would pass this tip along. Let me 
> know if this should go to forums instead of here. 
>
> 	Printing to pdf is no problem in ooo3, just hit the button, but if you want 
> to print to postscript, then things take a little more work. Printing to 
> kprinter is nebulous in ooo3, so there has to be another way -- and there is.
>
> 	The simplest way I have found is to:
>
> (1) install cups & cups-pdf from extra;
>
> (2) start cups with /etc/rc.d/cups 
>
>     (Add to deamons line in /etc/rc.conf to start automatically at boot)
>
> (3) access the cups print manager: http://localhost:631 and select:
>
>     Administration -> Find New Printers
>
>     Select CUPS-PDF (Virtual PDF)
>
> 	Make:	Generic
> 	Driver:	Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
>
> Done!
>
> 	Now to print to postscript, just print as usual, choose "CUPS-PDF" as the 
> printer and then select the checkbox for "print to file", hit print and enter 
> the filename.ps and 'print'
>
> 	Handy for faxes, etc... Since cups pdf uses the ps2pdf utility as the 
> background, you are simply stopping the process with "print to file" before 
> the ps2pdf utility is called.
>   

It would be good to add tips like these to the wiki.  They are likely to 
get lost if only posted to the mailing list.

Allan