printing PDF from a command line on Linux
Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone : 972-3-5348938 Mobile : 972-52-8885100 Fax: 972-3-5348967 = 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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
Hi, I use the following small script to print a PDF from the command line (requires that Acrobat reader (acroread) is installed). acroread has a -toPostScript option to create a .ps file without opening the graphical interface. I believe you can do the same thing with xpdf using the -ps command line switch. #!/usr/bin/tcsh set fn = `perl -e '$_ = $ARGV[0];s/\.pdf$//;print' $1` acroread -toPostScript $fn.pdf /tmp lpr /tmp/$fn.ps rm /tmp/$fn.ps Jason Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone: 972-3-5348938 Mobile :972-52-8885100 Fax : 972-3-5348967 = 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] -- 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 = 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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, softkol wrote: Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Hi Israel, pdftops or pdftotext should help. -- - josh GPG: 445F 7FB3 3D99 EE8C 99A4 4313 352D FFD4 02B2 C7F3 = 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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Have you tried pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr ? Your problem will be that the filename will not appear in the printer queue. So write a script that does pdf2ps, lpr, and removed the ps silently. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [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]
RE: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
Oleg thanks, but I forgot to mention only one little insignificant fact: All my printers are PCL. So you suggestion will not work. Any other idea to make this work? Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone : 972-3-5348938 Mobile : 972-52-8885100 Fax: 972-3-5348967 -Original Message- From: Oleg Goldshmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 2:37 PM To: softkol Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Have you tried pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr ? Your problem will be that the filename will not appear in the printer queue. So write a script that does pdf2ps, lpr, and removed the ps silently. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:36:34PM +, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a way to print a PDF file to printer queue from a command line? Have you tried pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr pdftops, pdf2ps: one of them is from gs, the other is from xpdf.. Basically have the same functionality. You can also pay a bunch to Adobe for a similar functionality in distiller. Your problem will be that the filename will not appear in the printer queue. So write a script that does pdf2ps, lpr, and removed the ps silently. How about 'lpr file.pdf'? Doesn't it have print filters in place? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oleg thanks, but I forgot to mention only one little insignificant fact: All my printers are PCL. So you suggestion will not work. Will not work or does not work? I will not pretend that I am an expert on printing. Can you explain why this won't work? If your printer works, and if you can print on it with lpr, then what is the problem? The idiosyncrasies of your printer should be handled and the driver level, and the command line should still work. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
With CUPS, lpr will convert most formats to the printer format, so you can just use: lpr file.pdf About printers being pcl: usually the lpr program is configured to convert postscript input files to whatever the printer uses, that's why 'pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr' should always work ok, if the printer is configured correctly. Haggai On 07 Dec 2004 13:19:55 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oleg thanks, but I forgot to mention only one little insignificant fact: All my printers are PCL. So you suggestion will not work. Will not work or does not work? I will not pretend that I am an expert on printing. Can you explain why this won't work? If your printer works, and if you can print on it with lpr, then what is the problem? The idiosyncrasies of your printer should be handled and the driver level, and the command line should still work. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [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] -- Haggai Eran = 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]
Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux
Actually, I meant that cups' lpr would run pdftops for you. It is still up to pdftops to do the translation to postscript, and then it is up to the configured printer filter to convert the postscript to the printer's format. You say this doesn't work, what exactly is the error? How is your system configured? What printer do you use? On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:05:05 +0200, softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hagai, Thanks but it just does not work. The pdf file I am trying to print is not just plain text , it has tt fonts in Hebrew and GRAPHICS. Are you sure cups can handle it. Best Regards, Israel Shikler Softkol Software Services Phone : 972-3-5348938 Mobile : 972-52-8885100 Fax: 972-3-5348967 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Haggai Eran Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: printing PDF from a command line on Linux With CUPS, lpr will convert most formats to the printer format, so you can just use: lpr file.pdf About printers being pcl: usually the lpr program is configured to convert postscript input files to whatever the printer uses, that's why 'pdf2ps file.pdf - | lpr' should always work ok, if the printer is configured correctly. Haggai On 07 Dec 2004 13:19:55 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oleg thanks, but I forgot to mention only one little insignificant fact: All my printers are PCL. So you suggestion will not work. Will not work or does not work? I will not pretend that I am an expert on printing. Can you explain why this won't work? If your printer works, and if you can print on it with lpr, then what is the problem? The idiosyncrasies of your printer should be handled and the driver level, and the command line should still work. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [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] -- Haggai Eran = 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] -- Haggai Eran = 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]
