krisbee2000 Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 In 2008, I wanted to put a pdf writer into cups, so I could write to pdf's in mozilla and wine. However, everytime I try to get the distiller to work, I get an error in the pdf-writer backend... E [23/Jun/2008:06:57:19 -0400] PID 8845 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf-writer) stopped with status 1! I [23/Jun/2008:06:57:19 -0400] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more. I [23/Jun/2008:06:57:19 -0400] [Job 30] Backend returned status 1 (failed) Any ideas? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Certainly enough it's not Acrobat Distiller: it's available for Windows and MACOS, but not Linux. Do you mean the pdf-writer ruby module, the usual cups-pdf printer backend, or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisbee2000 Posted June 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I was following the directions right here: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 23, 2008 Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 I see... maybe you are missing some dependencies? I am using cups-pdf, which works well, and is packaged for many distros- probably for Mandriva as well. If not, you can grab the SRPM package from http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr.../download.shtml and try compiling that one instead (like "rpm --rebuild cups*.src.rpm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisbee2000 Posted June 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 (edited) I did what you said, but I feel so stupid... I can't figure out where the pdf's are going, or where to change... sorry for the trouble... I tried changing in cups-pdf.conf, like it says on the webpage... but nothing seems to change: Copy the file cups-pdf.conf to /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf (or whatever you set above in cups-pdf.h) and modify it to meet you requirements. All options are commented and the defaults should work fine on most systems. Edited June 23, 2008 by krisbee2000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 I can't figure out where the pdf's are going, or where to change... I've never used cups-pdf before, so I'm guessing at this: I just took a quick look at the cups-pdf.conf on the site scarecrow linked to. I would suggest that if you think you have it set up properly, go to the 'Path Settings' section of the config file, and at this line: #Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER} edit like this: #Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER} Out ${HOME}/Desktop That should place them on your desktop, so you can see if everything is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisbee2000 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 That was what I was hoping for, but it didn't... they are going somewhere, and my logs say they are completing successfully... but where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 I guess you will have to look for them. :) In a terminal (as root) run updatedb then (as user) run locate -e .pdf > ~/pdf-list.txt now in your ~/home directory you will have a pdf-list, open it and look for your missing pdf files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 25, 2008 Report Share Posted June 25, 2008 Yeah, you can use a search tool (beagle, or catfish, or whatever...) to find your pdf files- or as suggested above, locate/slocate from CLI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisbee2000 Posted June 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 Ok, running the locate command as instructed above, the files are definitely going nowhere... which brings me back to square one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted June 27, 2008 Report Share Posted June 27, 2008 I'm not sure where square one is? Did you rebuild a src rpm? If so, which one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisbee2000 Posted June 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 I rebuilt the src rpm like the first post had instructed.... I think its the way cups has the URI that might be a problem: Description: Cups-PDF Location: Printer Driver: Generic postscript color printer (rev3) Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: cups-pdf:/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted June 29, 2008 Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 I know nothing about this particular thing in linux, but I did a little searching with Google. Maybe one of the following links will help. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-585933.html http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...-1.3.5.uci.info http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answer...se_in_Slackware http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46459 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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