Hallo Tim Allen, you wrote:
>> Is it possible to set up a printer in samba >> that will use ps2pdf converter to create pdf documents when printing >> on it ? Best Regards >> Steph > > Yes. Take a look at Sambafax: > > http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/ingalo/software/sambafax.html > > for the general idea. Obviously it's for a slightly different purpose > but could easily be adapted. > > A slight problem with such schemes is deciding what to call the PDF > file and where to put it. A dedicated directory off of your home is > one possibility. Or you could email the PDF back to yourself. > > But what you might really want is Redmon: > > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/ > > which allows you to set up Ghostscript on your local machine as a PS > or PDF writer. Last time I tried it, it had a minor bug in that it > would only write the PDF file to a local drive, not a network drive. and another one: #!/bin/bash #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ # /usr/local/bin/samba-print-pdf - print to a pdf-file # # Creation: 23.07.2002 Buchan Milne # Last Update: 21.10.2002 tb # # Arguments: # $1 = file (usually passed with %s from samba) # $2 = unix prefix to where to place the file (~%u should work) # $3 = windows prefix to the same location (\\%L\%u should work) # $4 = user/computer to send a notification to (%u or %m) # $5 = IP address of client (%I) # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. #---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ PS2PDF=ps2pdf13 OPTIONS="" INPUT=$1 KEEP_PS=0 PERMS=640 INFILE=$(basename $INPUT) BASEFILE=pdf-service #make a temp file to use for the output of the PDF OUTPUT="$2/$BASEFILE-$4-$$" > $2/$BASEFILE-$4-$$ if [ $? -ne 0 ] then # Generate a failure message to send to the user: MESSAGE=$(echo "Can't create temp file $2/$BASEFILE-$4-$$, exiting...") else WIN_OUTPUT="$3\\`basename $OUTPUT`" # create the PDF: $PS2PDF $OPTIONS $INPUT $OUTPUT.pdf >/dev/null 2>&1 # Generate a message to send to the user, and deal with the original file: MESSAGE=$(echo "Your pdf-file has been created as $WIN_OUTPUT.pdf") if [ "$KEEP_PS" = "1" ] then mv $INPUT $OUTPUT.ps MESSAGE=$(echo "$MESSAGE and your postscript file as $WIN_OUTPUT.ps") else rm -f $INPUT fi chmod $PERMS $OUTPUT.ps $OUTPUT.pdf #Remove empty file from mktemp: rm -f $OUTPUT fi # Send notification to user echo $MESSAGE|smbclient -U "eisfair pdf-service" -M "$4" -I "$5" 1> /dev/null In smb.conf: [pdf-service] comment = pdf-service on %h browseable = yes printable = yes path = /tmp print command = ( /usr/local/bin/samba-print-pdf %s ~%u \\\\%L\\%u %m %I ) & public = yes create mode = 0700 tom -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
