Once your unsupported printer is recognized either from USB or if setup as network printer from the appropriate network setting you are asked for a driver. If your printer is not listed you can alway select "Generic" to give you a choice of standard printing methods depicted below:
In this example on the left hand side a "PCL6/PCL XL Printer" is selceted and gives you again a variety of selections of PCL6 subsets on the right hand side. Depending on your model your Konica/Minolta printer may be a PCL6 printer and this entry may work, but you will have to simply try out what subsets are appropriate. If it's not PCL6 you may also try out if a generic GDI driver works.
Fancy special things your printer may be capable of will not work with a generic driver but at least you can print out something.
Well it seems Adobe has turned its back on the Linux community so I have to update this answer. I suppose you have moved to the latest Ubuntu or at least one that can use the more capable open source applications below.
Viewers With Annotation Viewing Capabilities
Open source viewers
Okular
A KDE based application, runs ok and looks ok in Gnome, one of the best open source applications that can both view and create annotations, note that this application can do standard and non standard annotations. You can create annotations that can be viewed by all viewers that support the pdf standard for annotations.
you can create annotations that does not interfere with the document, you will need to use Okular to view these, these can then be converted to standard annotations if you need to.
Evince
The default viewer on Ubuntu and most Gnome based desktops, the latest now have a somewhat limited support for standard pdf annotation viewing.
Proprietary Solutions
PDF Studio Pro
A very good fully capable PDF viewer and editor, from Qoppa Software, there are trial versions available for standard and pro, the pro verson has most of the features of Expensive tools from Adobe.
Some notable features of the pro version
- Redaction, block out parts of documents you do not want people to see.
- OCR, Make scanned pdf searchable
- Digital Signature, sign documents adding image of signature.
- Create and fill forms
- Measure Tool, measure using scale factors, CAD type dimensioning.
Kami (Formerly Notable PDF)
Kami is a browser based solution, can view standard annotations, can create non standard annotations, this works with Google Chrome browser, you can save annotated PDFs on Google Drive read PDF documents from web pages,and download to desktop or save to Google Drive this can replace Chrome's default PDF viewer, there are free, premium and Work versions available the premium version is $15.00 a year and the work version is $50.00 a year.
Some work features
- Ocr, create searchable pdf.
- Unlimited e-Signature
- Unlimited Files to Split
- Unlimited Files to Merge
Best Answer
There are other options, I use scribus with the pdfjam utility and Latex, the master page feature of scribus lends itself well to this kind of thing.
Usually when you create business cards you want multiple cards to appear on a single sheet for printing but you want to work with just one card page when editing. here is how to accomplish this with some other tools.
SCRIBUS WITH PDFJAM
Install the pdfjam package, this requires texlive and the texlive-latex-recommended packages, Install scribus-ng.
Start scribus-ng and set Document Layout to Single Page, set Default Unit to inches, set page Width to 3.5 inches set page Height to 2.0 inches. this is for U.S. card, set Number Of Pages to 10. set all Margin Guides to 0.125 inch, click OK.
Click the edit menu, in the list click Master Pages, a box with the master pages will pop up, there will be a default master page called Normal already there and will be selected for you, start adding text and graphics to this page, you will not need to edit any other pages, everything that you placed on this page will appear on every page in the document that the master is applied to, by default this one is applied to every page.
You can import a wide variety of vector graphics including svg files created with inkscape you can also add bitmap graphics such as photos.
Save the scribus document, close the Master Pages dialog, click the save as pdf button on the scribus toolbar, a 10 page pdf of the document will be saved in the location you selected.
go to the folder where you saved the pdf document and run pdfjam on it like this:
If your pdf saved by scribus was called card.pdf a document called 10upcard.pdf will be created with all pages in card.pdf imposed on a letter sized sheet ready for printing. this can be printed on Avery 8371 or your own card stock.
If you want a border around the cards you can run the command below:
This is useful when you want a cutting guide when you are not using perforated card stock from suppliers like Avery.
Output of pdfjam showing six of the imposed cards
USING LATEX
Use is made of the latex put command to enable latex with a small amount of code to make fairly good looking simple business cards, see the following link for some examples you can download http://www-ece.rice.edu/gsc/bus_cards/bus_cards.html