Setting up CUPS-PDF on a Linux instance
I need to print-to-PDF often, and often from encrypted or otherwise protected PDF forms, for e-filing. CUPS-PDF for OS X used to work, but no longer. My solution is a bit ham-fisted, but it works: I setup a simple CentOS 7 instance under VMware and simply print to that. Steps: Download the Installer and Setup CentOS I used CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1908.iso under VMware Fusion 8, with a virtual machine setup with 1GB RAM and a 20GB virtual hard drive, to setup an instance named: CentOS 64-bit Printing.vmwarevm I have it setup to use “bridged” networking (at least initially?) so I can SSH into it, which of course requires sshd to be running (and the installation of some basic stuff the minimal install leaves out): # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens33 ONBOOT= yes # ifup ens33 # yum provides "*/ifconfig" # yum install -y net-tools telnet wget vim Install EPEL and CUPS-PDF Browse to http://download-ib01.f...