Installation of pdf virtual printer in ubuntu

In windows, pdffacloud or the fuse printer provided by MSOffice is often used to print some webpage documents into pdf format. In Linux, such a tool is also needed in many places. When some documents in linux are incompatible with those in windows, it is a good choice to print the documents in pdf Format and send them to windows users. The following is the installation process of the virtual printer In Ubuntu (I have also taken some of the content on the Hiweed website into consideration, thanks to the advantages of open source. In windows, the pdffacloud or MS Office's internal printer is often used to print some webpage documents into pdf format. In Linux, such a tool is also needed in many places. When some documents in linux are incompatible with those in windows, it is a good choice to print the documents in pdf Format and send them to windows users. The following is the installation process of the virtual printer In Ubuntu (I have also taken some of the content on the Hiweed website into consideration, thanks to the advantages of open source.

1. Install cups and cups-pdf. cups-pdf is the main module of virtual printing:
Sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

2. the backend of cups-pdf requires the root permission, so set the permission as follows:
Sudo chmod 4755/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf

3. Choose system-system management-print the printer startup Configuration Wizard

4. Right-click the "new printer" chart and choose "add" to add a printer.

5. Use the detected Printer-select PDF Printer-forward

6. the manufacturer selects Gneric-PostScript Printer-Qianjin

7. Enter the printer name, for example, PDFCreater-application.

Now, the virtual printer is successfully added, so that we can print the required items in the web pages, documents, and specialized software as the pdf format we want.