cups-pdf does not print (pauses virtual printer)

[Andreas Schildbach]

mascarasnake wrote:

>     I ran into the same problem a while back. a quick hop to the 
> official  website:
>     <http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/>
> says that it needs root permissions and gives a simple fix in your  
> /etc/cupc/cupsd.conf file.
> 
> As an aside, I still haven't gotten cup-pdf to work properly from 
> firefox.  Text refuses to print properly. I've even tried just printing 
> to a .ps  file and using tools (ps2pdf , mogrify -format pdf 
> filename.ps) and still  get no results. If anyone has gotten anything 
> going, please post.

With the RunAsUser fix, cups-pdf finally prints. However, the resulting 
PDF only contains graphics, not any text.

This the same result that I got from "file-printing" to a Postscript 
printer and converting the file with ps2pdf. Is there any way out of this?

Regards,

Andreas