Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format. This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's?
Barry
On Friday 07 March 2008 12:09:07 Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format.
(There is also PDFCreator for Windows.) http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's?
If you're using CUPS there is cups-pdf:
I guess it's just: $ sudo aptitude install cups-pdf
And KDE has this feature. But you're not using KDE so, feh.
Cheers, Richard
With Firefox and OpenOffice.org its possible to tick "save to file" in the print dialog box and it will save as a pdf or a postscript file.
Dennis
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Barrys linux mail < bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format. This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's?
Barry
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Dennis Dryden wrote:
With Firefox and OpenOffice.org its possible to tick "save to file" in the print dialog box and it will save as a pdf or a postscript file.
Dennis
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Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format. This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's? Barry _______________________________________________ main@lists.alug.org.uk <mailto:main@lists.alug.org.uk> http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!
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Cheers that also works with thunderbird
Barry
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I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format.
Instead of printing to "lpr", print to "ps2pdf - outputfile.pdf" (tested with IceWeasel).
This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. [...]
Save the emails as text, then open the file(s) in something to print them?
Another option: print over the network with samba.
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