At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote:
what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix
printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format
and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed
out.
Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap
if= entry to take the file and save it as a file. That was a
no go - I just got an error.
This is should be workable, although there are probably a number
of subtle details that you'll need to pay attention to. You
will probably want to set a log file (lf=) for the printer, as
some useful error messages might show up there. Other errors
show up in /var/log/messages or /var/log/lpd-errs. What error
did you get?
Note that you'd want to set if= to an executable script, and
that the script should just *read* from stdin and write to
where you want it written. Eg:
#!/bin/sh
cat > /tmp/somefile
First try to get it to work by writing to a /tmp file. If you
get that working, you can then move on to getting it to work
more like what you really want.
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