How to install Canon LBP-2900 on Linux (Centos 6.2)

For Local Printer

Get Driver for your Canon LBP-2900 driver on http://support-in.canon-asia.com

Download CAPT Printer Driver for Linux Version 2.50

# wget http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/6/0100004596/01/Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN.tar.gz

Extract it

# tar -zxvf Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN.tar.gz 
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/Debian/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/Debian/cndrvcups-capt_2.50-1_i386.deb
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/Debian/cndrvcups-common_2.50-1_i386.deb
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/RPM/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-capt-2.50-1.i386.rpm
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.i386.rpm
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/64-bit_Driver/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/64-bit_Driver/RPM/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/64-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-capt-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/64-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Doc/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Doc/guide-capt-2.5xUK.tar.gz
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Doc/LICENSE-captdrv-2.50E.txt
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Doc/README-capt-2.5xUK.txt
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Src/
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Src/cndrvcups-capt-2.50-1.tar.gz
Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/Src/cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.tar.gz

Install only 2 files
# rpm -Uvh Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.i386.rpm 

# rpm -Uvh Linux_CAPT_PrinterDriver_V250_uk_EN/32-bit_Driver/RPM/cndrvcups-capt-2.50-1.i386.rpm

Restart the cups

/etc/init.d/cups restart

Now run this command

# /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP2900 -m CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E
# /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o /dev/usb/lp0

Start ccpd service

/etc/init.d/ccpd start

To see printer status

# captstatusui -P LBP2900

For Network Printer

Simple, just add printer using smb connection and CAPT driver from canon which you can find on /usr/share/cups/model/ and for Canon LBP-2900 you can using /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd And Here is my printers.conf

Info Canon LBP2900 CAPT English
Location Titan
MakeModel Canon LBP2900 CAPT ver.1.5
DeviceURI smb://username:password@192.168.110.249/Canon%20LBP2900
State Idle
StateTime 1367827711
Type 8392836
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstocapt
Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
 

MyPrinter (GTK View)

MyPrinter (WebView)

pdf2svg on Centos 6.2 (powerfull toy)

To understand about pdf2svg, please visit author site on cityinthesky.co.uk and download the latest source code to compile, in my case it is pdf2svg-0.2.1.tar.gz And follow instruction there to compile the source code,
Extract it

tar -zxvf pdf2svg-0.2.1.tar.gz

Go to extracted directory

cd pdf2svg-0.2.1

Do configure

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

And make

make

in this step im not so successful, there is warning like this

pdf2svg.c:152: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’

BUT i ignore it, just try my luck :D Final step is

make install

And check

which pdf2svg

giving me result

/usr/local/bin/pdf2svg

How to use Simple enough, just follow author website example (again)

pdf2svg pdf_testpage.pdf pdf_testpage.svg

now you can open pdf_testpage.svg on inkscape with all converted fonts (Yes !!! converted) and save it as eps file to open using Adobe Illustrator.