As in a previous post I cannot get cups-pdf to work with anything other than OpenOffice, it just gives me an “error while printing” message. When this happens, I also cannot print to the Mac native PDF (Save as PDF), it gives the same generic “error while printing” message. If I remove the printer, then I can print using the Mac native save as PDF system.
Since I can use the Mac native “save as PDF” then I would like to completely remove the cups-pdf file(s) from my system.
Would anyone know how I would go about doing this? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
It appears, looking through the package archive, that these files are installed. Carefully remove them (you have to authenticate when doing so) and you should be good.
1) First delete the printer you might have added in printer setup utility.
2) remove these files (you can do so in terminal or by navigating to the folder using finder Go>Go to Folder…
/Library/Receipts/CUPS-PDF 2.4.0
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf
/usr/share/cups/model/PostscriptColor.ppd
/var/sppol/cups-pdf