


Apply changes (to install the packages).Find ‘cups’ packages and install all of them.Type “sudo synaptic package manager” & input system password.You should now be able to print using the Cups-pdf.Re-installed ‘cups’ from the Ubuntu Software Center but this time with all available ‘Add-ons’.The printed document will then be saved as a PDF file in the location you chose. Type the file name you’d like and choose the location (such as Documents or Desktop), then click Save. Uninstall ‘cups’ from the Ubuntu Software Center In the PDF drop-down menu, select Save as PDF.Some users have reported the below steps for their installations: OpenOffice Writer can export files as PDF.Cups-pdf can print to PDF (Shows as a printer under your printer list).CutePDF Writer and PrimoPDF are free PDF printer drivers that will show up under the print dialog and allow to print any file to PDF.For Office 2007, Microsoft distributes a free add-in to Save As PDF.Microsoft Office 2010 and above comes with a “Save As PDF” function in each application (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint).When printing just select Microsoft Print to PDF from the printer list. Windows 10 now comes with a PDF printer.Convert any document to PDF from the Print dialog, by choosing the option to save a document as PDF.Once installed, these printer drivers will show under the list of printers in your print dialog, allowing you to save any file or web page to PDF. To print any documents to PDF on older operating systems, there a number of free PDF printer drivers, available for download. In general, we found that packaging with our own PDF printer driver is not needed as nowadays the latest operating systems come with a PDF printer and most business applications include a Save As PDF function. If you are using transparency to create lighter colours then you should be using lighter colours instead that’s just good practice in general as it helps to ‘fix’ other problems before they occur.PDF Studio does not provide a PDF printer driver like Adobe does. If you haven’t done any of those things above, if you can share the document then we can have a look at it to see if there’s anything else you can do with it.Įdit: Also, I think (and someone can correct me otherwise) that some PDF formats (you don’t say which one you’re exporting to) can’t handle transparency and so layers with transparency – or child layers of layers with transparency – will also be rasterised. The only thing you can do about this, upon exporting, is to set the Rasterise option to Nothing but that will simply omit any rasterised layers from the export. If you have applied an Adjustment, or Layer Effect, or Live Filter to a layer – or a parent layer of that layer (etc.) – then that layer will be rasterised.
