5

What is "Print to File" and can it be used from command line?

view full story
linux-howto

http://unix.stackexchange.com – When you select "Print to File" in a Gnome print dialog (not cups-pdf): ... what is the actual command that gets executed? (I'm interested in the postscript variant, as on the image) On the other hand - maybe there isn't a command call; maybe it is gtk_print_operation_set_export_filename from The new Gtk+ Printing API? In any case - is there a way for me to utilize this particular code from the command line (not pdf2ps and the like)? Say, by using lpr to "print to file" to a postscript file - as if I was using the dialog above? (HowTos)

Danial's picture
Submitted by Danial on 06/08/2012 – Made popular on 06/08/2012

Stories similar to What is "Print to File" and can it be used from command line?

I've been running FC16 for almost a year now and my Canon MF4360 laser printer has worked fine. I just noticed that I can no longer print from the linux command line. When I print using lpr, the printer starts up but nothing comes out. If I print from firefox or open the file browser, I can print just fine.

Could this be a conversion problem when preping the text file from the command line?

Global Printing Issues 3 years 28 weeks ago

Sincerest apologies if I've posted this in the wrong forum.

I have a working HP printer hooked up to my OpenSuSE 11.0 computer in the office. I have OpenSuSE 11.2 computers -- fresh installations -- in my living room and a laptop, both of these computers are connected via my wireless network.

How to print in single command/shortcut (like Ctrl+P) without showing the print configuration window?

How to print postscript files? 39 weeks 6 days ago

Hi, I am looking for a quick answer. How to print postscript files by using gs command? Let's say the HP printer's hostname is pname and the document name is pfile. The OS is RHEL 4 with cups enabled. I've read gs man but didn't get it well.

Thank you in advance!

hi folks

I have issue in printing pdf while using ERP application, it's using pasta utility to print pdf. If i print from command line its successful while when ERP user give print command the printer doesnot print anything rather it gives error which is as follows

Code: ESP Ghostscript 815.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Pasta: Error: Preprocess failed.

Android printing app (FOSS) 35 weeks 1 day ago

Unfortunately there is still no good printing solution for Android. In my regard the lack of a reliable way to print documents without cloud is the hottest missing feature of Android. Good luck there already is the awesome CUPS printing system available, unfortunately not for Android.

printing in firefox 3.6 3 years 19 weeks ago

Hi I cant print in firefox 3.6 by cups. Whe i go to file print i see the printers. The file is send to the wright printer. Printer crasch. I look on internet en found a solution. Firefox can only print to file. I had to add gtk-printer-backbands ="lpr,file" in /etc/gtk-2.0 in the file gtkr. and restart cups

Hi Experts, I am trying to get the output from a matching pattern but unable to construct the awk command:

file :

Code: aa bb cc 11 dd aa cc 33 cc 22 45 68 aa 33 44 44 dd aa cc 37 aa 33 44 67 I want the output to be : ( if $1 match to "aa" start of the line,then print $4 of that line, and if $1 matches to "dd" of start of that line then print $4 of that line)

I have a 10000 line file that contains on each line a string in the form of "data:key", which is also right-padded by 8 characters, where ':' is the delimiter.