cups-pdf does not print (pauses virtual printer)

[Al Gordon]

On 1/3/06, Andreas Schildbach <andreas at schildbach.de> wrote:
> 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

The RunAsUser fix worked for me, both for graphics and text.

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