I believe that pstopnm just calls ghostscript - you can call ghostscript yourself.
I think a call to ghostscript something like: gs -q -sDEVICE=pnm -sOUTPUTFILE=- with quiet requested Bmay do what you want. Jason ------------------------------------------------------- Jason Friedman Ph.D. Student Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Home page: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~jason On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, David Harel wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run pstopnm on pipe. > > The command: > smb2ps infile > a ; pstopnm a; pnmtojpeg a000.ppm > b > displays some output to stdout and converts correctly. > > However if I try the same process using pipes: > smb2ps infile | pstopnm -stdout - | pnmtojpeg > file > > Does not work. > The reason it does not work in pipe is that the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# pstopnm > command adds it's own garbage to the output file when working using > stdio which is the same message you see on stdout using real files. > > some background. > Linux machine is a RH 7.3 > The input file "infile" is a result of w2000 client sending a print file > with some garbage wrapping it. The smb2ps is a simple filter to remove > the junk as recommended by one of the samba documents (I do not remember > which but if anyone cares I will look for it). > > The whole idea is to convert a printout from a Windows client to jpeg > and send it via e-mail instead of fax. > > Well.... What are your comments? > > -- > Thanks. > > David Harel, > > ================================== > > Home office +972 4 6921986 > Fax: +972 4 6921986 > Cellular: +972 54 534502 > Snail Mail: Amuka > D.N Merom Hagalil > 13802 > Israel > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
