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Fixing PDF printer on Ubuntu 9.10 after update

December 11th 2009 in Default

On my computer at work the pdf printer has been broken for a while and today, happily, I found a way to fix it.

  1. Go to System → Administration → Printing and delete the pdf printer.
  2. Create the ~/PDF folder if it does not exists
  3. Run sudo aptitude reinstall cups-pdf to reinstall it.
  4. Add a pdf printer again using the wizard.
  5. Profit. :)



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