Printing To PDF using CUPS

CUPS-PDF is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver. It is available under the GPL and is packaged for many different distributions or can be built directly out of the source files.
Here are the steps to get working:

• Install CUPS and CUPS-PDF using your package manager(You may need to enable http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/ repository for openSUSE.)
 

• Open the CUPS web frontend http://localhost:631 using a web browser like Firefox.

• Use the "root" username and password.

• Select the Administration tab and click "Find New Printers".

• Click "Add This Printer" and then "Continue"(It may be automatically added)

And you are done.Select print from any application and start making PDFs.It saves generated pages on

/var/spool/cups-pdf/yourusername/

To change this, edit the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file. For example to store the PDF files in the "Desktop" directory in each user's home directory you may set:

Out ${HOME}/Desktop

Happy Printing To PDF.