Jaguar 10.2 Panther 10.3 Tiger 10.4 Leopard 10.5 CUPS 1.1.15 CUPS 1.1.19 CUPS 1.1.23 CUPS 1.3.1 Aug 2002 Oct 2003 Apr 2005 Oct 2007 Approximate Timeline. Apple does not provide a graphical user interface (GUI) to make this setting in Mac OS X 10.5. To make this setting we have 2 options: a) use the terminal to send a lpadmin command or b) print one time and have the print queue on the Macintosh go to hold status. CUPS uses several configuration files stored in the a hidden folder /private/etc/cups. PDFwriter 1.2.1 for Mac OS X How to install PDFwriter Open the dmg file youʻve downloaded and double click on the Package Lisanet PDFwriter and follow the steps on the screen. After Installation has been completed, open System Preferences and select Print & Fax. You should see a window like that (in this example, thereʻs already a printer. CUPS backends have to run as root anyway, so that wrong user attribute should have caused a problem under Snow Leopard, too. Because of sandboxing, CUPS-PDF and other save-to-disk backends can only save to a few locations on disk, such as /var or /tmp. PDF-XChange Viewer is a lightweight reader for PDF documents. Though it hasn't been developed yet, PDF-XChange Viewer by Tracker Software Products Ltd for Mac won't be necessarily missed, since you can use any of the alternatives from this list.
Update, April 2017: PDFWriter might not work on newer Mac operating systems. Instead, try RWTS-PDFwriter. RWTS-PDFwriter is closely based on Lisanet PDFwriter, but avoids the sandboxing restrictions on print drivers introduced in El Capitan, and also provides automatic configuration of the printer driver to simplify installation.
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About a year ago I posted a tutorial describing how to create 2-up PDFs in Sibelius 7 with the help of Create Booklet on a Mac. This was necessary because it is not possible to print to a PDF in Sibelius 7 or 7.5 using the OS dialog in the same way one was able to in earlier versions.
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Last week, however, Minnesota-based composer and educator James DeCaro posted a comment that described a solution to this problem: PDFwriter for Mac, which can be downloaded for free from the SourceForge site.
As described, “PDFwriter is a printer driver for Mac OS X, which will let you generate PDF files by simply printing. PDFwriter is heavily based on CUPS-PDF. It doesn’t use ghostscript to generate PDF files, instead it uses the Mac OS X internal pdf capabilities.”
Installing PDFwriter is simple. After double-clicking the installer and installing PDFwriter, you can add it to the list of your available printers by opening System Preferences on your Mac, selecting Printers & Scanners, and clicking the + button. PDFwriter will appear in your list of available printers. Click Add, and henceforth PDFwriter will be available to you as a virtual printer.
To make PDFs in Sibelius using PDFwriter, it’s as simple as selecting PDFwriter from the Printer list. You can then select “2 Pages Per Sheet” or whatever other custom options you like. As James rightly pointed out in his comment: “Another advantage to this method is that it retains the number of copies of each part, so if I combine all of the created PDFs into one file, I can simply print that one file and obtain a full set of parts.”
PDFwriter places its output in Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/PDFwriter, so if you plan on using this method a lot, you might consider making an alias of that folder and placing it somewhere on your desktop or another place where you can easily access it.
Again, you can download PDFwriter from SourceForge. Thanks, James, for this great tip!
[Sorry, these are *not* detailed instructions -- they are just general hints for technically-inclined users. If the cmd-line isn't your thing or the description doesn't make sense, I'd suggest waiting to see if the pre-packaged installer will be updated for 10.6]Cups Pdf For Mac Os X 10.10
Overall Problem(s): The current (v2.4.6.1) CodePoetry package of CUPS-PDF driver doesn't work under Snow Leopard. After installing the package, the CUPS-PRINTER doesn't even show up in the Printer & Fax system prefs when you select 'Add Printer'.
Solution step#1: Per the latest CUPS-PDF README, the /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf binary must now be chmod'ed 0700 and be chowned by root:wheel. Otherwise, the CUPS-PRINTER won't even show up. Do this and the CUPS-PRINTER should now appear and allow you to add it.
Solution step#2: The new 'application sandbox' feature in 10.6 won't allow the required pstopdf binary to write to a folder in a user's homedir. So the default 'Out ${HOME}/Desktop/cups-pdf/' entry in the /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf file will cause the printjob to silently fail. (Watch System.log for evidence of this)
After wasting a few hours trying different methods to get the sandbox to create an exception for pstopdf, I gave up. Instead I just edited the cups-pdf.conf entry to point to somewhere the sandbox will allow (e.g. '/var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}' ) then just symlinked it to a folder in my homedir.
At the moment I prefer this rather than potentially messing with the system-wide sandbox config, since this security mechanism isn't completely documented as of yet.
NOTE: While I applaud the CodePoetry author for creating the prepackaged OSX installer, if anyone reading this is going to actually dig this deep to get it to work under Snow Leopard, you might consider just building the original CUPS-PDF driver (it's only a single file) directly from the source. See http://www.cups-pdf.de . The current latest (v2.5.0) worked fine for me using the above techniques. Just don't forget that you need to manually install/edit the cups-pdf.conf file also.