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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto
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On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>> ...
>> Why do you need to bypass CUPS?
>
> Thanks, it's just for debugging.
>
> Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers
> hang here.
> To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer
> works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed
> to accept postscript level 3).

Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line?

I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work.

Stroller.