Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-27 Thread Troy Dack
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:34, Jimmie Fulton wrote: > I wrote my pdf (and jpg printer) script in Python... to each his own. > :) Its at work behind a firewall; maybe I'll post it later if I > remember. > > The script is a cups backend. (I did it this way so that Netatalk can > share the same cups

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-26 Thread Sean Higgins
Joshua, > Why not set it up to email the PDF to the user as an attachment? That way > if they have to create a private/confidential document of some sort in PDF > format, they don't have to worry so much about it being stuck on a public > share. Good idea, just be careful with the size of the PD

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-26 Thread Ryan Henry
is anyone else having several pdf's named 'Remote Downlevel Docment' that are generated (if you are using the %J as the filename) or several pdf documents that are just a few kilobytes in size that are not valid pdfs? I have seen some discussion on this problem on google, however no fixes. Than

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-26 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On 26 Mar 2003 08:01:41 -0600 Jimmie Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 01:42, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At our compagny we use about 8 pdf writers with adobe acrobat, but here (Belgium) > > we must use special joboptions to create a pdf. Is it possible t

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-26 Thread Jimmie Fulton
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 01:42, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > At our compagny we use about 8 pdf writers with adobe acrobat, but here (Belgium) we > must use special joboptions to create a pdf. Is it possible to use the same > parameters this way ? What type of job options? Example? Basi

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, At our compagny we use about 8 pdf writers with adobe acrobat, but here (Belgium) we must use special joboptions to create a pdf. Is it possible to use the same parameters this way ? Patrick -- Knowledge in a databank,is like food which is in a deepfreeze. Nothing comes out better than

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Jimmie Fulton
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:12, M. Robert Martin wrote: > Here's my simple pdf-writer script on Samba: > > 12:44:49 db root/# cat /usr/local/bin/printpdf.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use Getopt::Long; > > my $file =''; > my $user = ''; > my $ps2pdf = `which ps2pdf`; > chomp $ps2pdf; > >

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Joshua J. Berry
Hi...you may not be looking for suggestions for improvements, but this just crossed my mind, and I thought I'd share it with you: Why not set it up to email the PDF to the user as an attachment? That way if they have to create a private/confidential document of some sort in PDF format, they don

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:41:28 -0600 (CST) "M. Robert Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thankyou for your answer, it gave me quite some more understanding on the thing/s you did with Samba/pdf and the connection :) Call me enlightened ;-) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .si

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Raptorfan
I'm curious about two things with non-adobe acrobat creation tools.. modification of metainfo (summary info, locking the file from changes, etc) and compression. Do many/any of the non-adobe creators do these things and still open/work in adobe readers? I believe the Adobe tools use some sort of L

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread M. Robert Martin
I've heard no quality complaints, and I'm surprised at the positive reaction. It's really just a throw-together that I spent too little time on, and kinda thought most bigger network admins did something like this already. It makes too much sense... On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Sundance wrote: > I heard

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Sundance
I heard M. Robert Martin said: > Anyway, just thought I'd share. Hope it's useful. Rob, this looks great! I hope this will make it to the next GWN! Any empirical comments to make about the compared quality of ps2pdf and Distiller? It might be much easier to slip your solution past the manageme

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread M. Robert Martin
Here's my simple pdf-writer script on Samba: 12:44:49 db root/# cat /usr/local/bin/printpdf.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Getopt::Long; my $file =''; my $user = ''; my $ps2pdf = `which ps2pdf`; chomp $ps2pdf; GetOptions( 'file=s' => \$file, 'user=s' => \$user) or die; my $outfile = "/vo

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Server

2003-03-25 Thread Spider
begin quote On 25 Mar 2003 08:16:12 -0600 Jimmie Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # PDF creation: > ps2pdf(gs) > > On a side note: I built a PDF server (samba/cups/ghostscript) for my > office here in Houston. After the other techs in my company (which > never ran linux before) found out