Hi,
You might want to try to look into the Distiller side of things.
That's what I always did. I am a DTP guy.
1) I believe you are using Rundirex.txt file to convert all the .ps's
into one .pdf. This page from Adobe confirms that it will take the
files in directory order under
Miguel Medalha wrote:
Regardless of what that paper says, Distiller has ALWAYS processed the
files in alphabetical order under Windows. I have been doing so since
2000 and Acrobat Distiller 4. We are now at 9. I refer, of course, to
the use of rundirx.
again, Windows NTFS directories
again, Windows NTFS directories are inherently stored in sorted order
because they are B-Tree indexes on the filename.
if this distiller process is being run from a DOS batch job in
Windows, you could perhaps use something like...
for /f %%F in ('dir /b /on *.ps') DO
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote:
again, Windows NTFS directories are inherently stored in sorted order
because they are B-Tree indexes on the filename.
if this distiller process is being run from a DOS batch job in
Windows, you could perhaps use
http://code.google.com/p/samba-dirsort-vfs/
Did you try that? I think someone recommended it to you.
Well, I did try to compile it but make fails on all the Linux computers
I have access to. They all run CentOS 5.2. It would be nice to have a
.rpm... I am a sysadmin, not a programmer, I am
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote:
This seems a bit strange to me. Why doesn't EXT3 present the files in
alphanumerical order after they are first created one by one but then
presents them alphanumerically after a bulk move to another directory?
This sounds to me like the dir_index
This sounds to me like the dir_index option was applied to a file system
that didn't originally have it and an fsck -Df wasn't run at the time.
That may well be the most relevant information given here! I will
*certainly* give it a try.
Thank you!
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:43 +, Miguel Medalha wrote:
snip
(...) think your real problem lies in your processing software in
the file ordering. I would have a really good look at the software doing it.
The problem lies in EXT3. I discovered that if I mv the files to another
Miguel Medalha wrote:
(...) think your real problem lies in your processing software in
the file ordering. I would have a really good look at the software doing it.
The problem lies in EXT3. I discovered that if I mv the files to another
directory the files will then appear on the
I still think the dir_index _ought_ to do what you need it to do. But
I've never had to depend on it for that purpose so it is just wishful
supposition on my part.
I am now almost certain that dir_index will solve the problem. I already
remotely did fsck -fD to that filesystem.
Now I
Miguel Medalha wrote:
I still think the dir_index _ought_ to do what you need it to do. But
I've never had to depend on it for that purpose so it is just wishful
supposition on my part.
I am now almost certain that dir_index will solve the problem. I already
remotely did fsck -fD to
Did you consider sharing a directory from the machine running distiller
and cifs-mounting it on the linux side to get ntfs behavior?
That is out of question. The Windows machines are graphic workstations
which are not all connected all the time and the Distiller service is
essential to the
Miguel Medalha wrote:
Did you consider sharing a directory from the machine running distiller
and cifs-mounting it on the linux side to get ntfs behavior?
That is out of question. The Windows machines are graphic workstations
which are not all connected all the time and the Distiller service
I was under the impression that the Distiller app was running under
Windows. If it isn't, it doesn't make much sense for it to expect NTFS
filesystem semantics.
Yes, Distiller is running under Windows. When pages start to get ready,
one of the graphic operators opens Distiller on
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/samba-dirsort-vfs/
Did you try that? I think someone recommended it to you.
Well, I did try to compile it but make fails on all the Linux computers
I have access to. They all run CentOS 5.2.
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 15:29, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt wrote:
I am now almost certain that dir_index will solve the problem. I already
remotely did fsck -fD to that filesystem.
I don't really think so... I believe dir_index is the default, your
filesystem was probably already
Hi,
You might want to try to look into the Distiller side of things.
1) I believe you are using Rundirex.txt file to convert all the .ps's
into one .pdf. This page from Adobe confirms that it will take the
files in directory order under Windows:
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 20:45, Filipe Brandenburger
filbran...@gmail.com wrote:
3) Rundirex.txt (even with a .txt extension) is a Postscript file. [...]
[...] way to sort the list of files from inside Postscript.
I think I did it.
Inside your Rundirex.txt, you should have this snippet:
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