{"id":2664,"date":"2013-12-25T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2013-12-25T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T11:30:40","slug":"install-boomaga-virtual-printer-ubuntu-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-boomaga-virtual-printer-ubuntu-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Boomaga Virtual Printer in Ubuntu Linux via PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Boomaga virtual printer\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boomaga is a virtual printer for viewing a document before printing it out using the physical printer and help you get your documents prepared a bit before printing.<\/p>\n<p>The program is very simple to work with. Running any program, click \u201cprint\u201d and select \u201cBoomaga\u201d to see in several seconds (CUPS takes some time to respond) the Boomaga window open. If you print out one more document, it gets added to the previous one, and you can also print them out as one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga-virtual-printer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga-virtual-printer.jpg\" alt=\"boomaga virtual printer main window\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga-virtual-printer.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga-virtual-printer-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether your printer supports duplex printing or not, you would be able to easily print on both sides of the sheet. If your printer does not support duplex printing, point this out in the settings, and Booklet would ask you to turn over the pages half way through printing your document.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga_printer_settings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga_printer_settings.jpg\" alt=\"boomaga printer settings\" width=\"409\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga_printer_settings.jpg 409w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/boomaga_printer_settings-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The program can also help you get your documents prepared a bit before printing. At this stage Boomaga makes it possible to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paste several documents together.<\/li>\n<li>Print several pages on one sheet.\n<ul>\n<li>1, 2, 4, 8 pages per sheet<\/li>\n<li>Booklet. Folding the sheets in two, you\u2019ll get a book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Install Boomaga in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The latest version (so far it is 0.3.0) is available in PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>To get started installing the app, press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:boomaga\/ppa\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install boomaga<\/pre>\n<p>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boomaga is a virtual printer for viewing a document before printing it out using the physical printer and help you get your documents prepared a bit before printing. The program is very simple to work with. Running any program, click \u201cprint\u201d and select \u201cBoomaga\u201d to see in several seconds (CUPS takes some time to respond) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[931,932],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-boomaga-ppa","tag-virtual-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}