One step closer I actually created a shell script in /etc/cron.hourly called pdfdistiller
#!/bin/sh DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S` if test -f /shr/pdf/*.ps then /usr/bin/ps2pdf /shr/pdf/*.ps /shr/pdf/$DATE.tmp mv /shr/pdf/$DATE.tmp /shr/pdf/$DATE.pdf rm /shr/pdf/*.ps #/usr/bin/printpdf /shr/pdf/*.ps fi echo no postscript file to process and setup a printer under cups using the distiller ppd. and printing to file /shr/pdf/test.ps I would like to change the regularity of the cron job to say every minute... How do I do this ? I can't print through samba printing, and I don't know why. In my smb.conf file, there are two places where print commands are listed. under printers which is lpr-cups and under globals, and the printcap name said lpstat Is this normal ? Chris On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:25:36 +1100 "Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? > Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, > only outputs in *.ps though > I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and > convert any postscript files to pdf. > > I am trying to set it up, but restarting the cupsd rewrites the > /etc/printcap file > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, 16 November 2001 12:59 am > To: slug > Subject: Re: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:30:15AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just stumbled over this too, last night. It avoids the need to buy > > expensive PDF creation software from Adobe. > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html > > Yes it's an ace "trick". I have setup a few Windows PC's here to use a > virtual PostScript printer (usually a colour HP laserjet) and ps2pdf to > enable users to create PDF files. Whats really most interesting though is > that most people believe that you MUST have Adobe Distiller to create any > PDF files. I often get M$ Word files submitted to some web sites I run > with the comment from the user "I don't have Distiller so I can't create > PDF". Alas Adobe markets so well :-( > > Mike > (who still prefers ps over pdf as I can lift up the bonnet of ps and fiddle > with the carburettor) > -- > We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. > > Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney > Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 > Home: http://www.speleonics.com.au > Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. > *************************************** > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
