Remote Printing Question: Is it possible to print through a VNC session back to the printer on your local machine where you are running the VNC Viewer from? (by brad2892)
Answers:
- No, this is not possible in the current version. (by Michael Gorovoy)
- Only if the printer is available as network printer on the server machine. There is no way to print directly through the VNC connection. (by Patrick Nagel)
- Print to a PDF file, transfer file to local machine and then print it (workaround first suggested by Mike Simon)
How?- What I do is print to a PDF using the free RedMon and Ghostscript utilities:
http://free.pages.at/dpaehl/pdfwriter/
Then transfer the PDF to the local machine and print it. (by Mike Simon)
[On a second thought, Mike Simon wrote these:]
actually these are better instructions since they leave out the adobe SW: http://kenchiro.tripod.com/howtoPDF.html
plus here are some extra notes:
Other PS printers you can use:- for color PDFs use HP Color Laserjet 5/5M PS
- for B&W PDFs use HP Laserjet 5P/MP PS
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Program:
C:\gs\gs7.05\bin\gswin32c.exe
Arguments:
-q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r600 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -
Output:
Prompt for filename
Run:
Minimized
(by Mike Simon) - I used to use RedMon and GhostScript to make PDFs. Unfortunately they're a pain to set up and in my experience don't make very good PDFs.
Go to http://www.pdf995.com/ and download Pdf995. It's a much easier to use PDF printer and it's still free. The only downside is that every time you print it opens a web page to a sponsor site but that can easily be closed. If you don't like the sponsor pages comming up you can always pay $10 to get a version that doesn't have them. (by Steve Hiner) - For creating pdf file for free, you can use PDFCreator.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ (suggestion by Raylund Lai)
PDFCreator
yet another PDF printer , *but GPL & open* (by Ran Sasson) - Another option. . .without watermarks or popups is CutePDF Writer. http://www.cutepdf.com (by TechFan)
- Try http://www.fineprint.com
They have a virtual printer and pdf creator. I use it all the time, works great. (by Rob Hoerning) - Another free PDF conversion utility is:
http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/default.htm (by Paul G.Boutot)
- What I do is print to a PDF using the free RedMon and Ghostscript utilities:
All credits go to the respective authors and MBV for collecting the postings.
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