It has become common nowadays that Python projects provide their documentation in “source form“. The documentation is split into multiple files, written in restructured text, and is shipped together with some other configuration and media files for Sphinx. The user is meant to use the provided Makefile to export the documentation in various formats. This [...]

Reading a man page using a terminal application is easy, but I doubt if it would ever win a convenience award. Sometimes, it is necessary to print the man page. I can recommend two ways of doing this.

pdf2email is a CUPS backend that uses GhostScript to print a document to PDF and sends the final file to the user that requested the print via email. This software is written in Python. I had written this backend a few months ago, it has worked fine for me, so I decided to release it. Your feedback is welcome.

This is a quick reference to the commands and print job options a user can use from command line in order to print documents. Although print dialogs have evolved, it’s many times necessary to send a document to the printer with some extra options. For detailed explanation of each command’s functionality please refer to the CUPS user documentation.

This Nautilus script was written because gnome-print does not list the user-defined or system-wide CUPS printer instances in the printers list. "Printer instances" are just sets of settings, so that a user does not have to type them for every print. Check the CUPS documentation for more info. So, in order to use your defined [...]