Print to PDF? Was Re: [ILUG] Image Formats: the end

[Philip Trickett]

Very nice. Now I'll do that just after re-installing RedHat 6.2

Cheers,

Phil Trickett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of Conor
> Daly
> Sent: 08 June 2000 12:57
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: Print to PDF? Was Re: [ILUG] Image Formats: the end
>
>
> Yeah.
>
> Well, no.
>
> But I think I know how
>
> [PDF-Print]
> postscript=yes
> print command=ps2pdf %f ;rm %f
>
> Now,  a few difficulties:
>
> 1.  I can't remember which variable refers to the incoming file but it's
> documented in the samba man pages and in "using samba" which comes in HTML
> with version 2.0.7
> 2.  How are you going to get a filename for the output file from
> the client
> user?  The standard incoming filename is just the usual run of the mill
> temporary filename automatically generated and I don't think the user will
> be happy to  end up with "rgyr74883.pdf" as an output file.
> 3.  It appears that using a samba printer share is *not* the
> right tool for
> the job.  The idea of using a printer to generate postscript is nice, it
> provides a general hook for *any* Windows application to create postscript
> even it the app doesn't have a method to generate postscript.  If
> you *only*
> want to do this from an app that *can* generate postscript itself (eg. M$
> Word with the postscript converter), the printer setup is superfluous and
> just adds more complications to an already overloaded system (M$
> Windows is
> overloaded just on a clean install!! :-).  You can simply save as
> postscript
> to the directory specified below and it all happens for you.
>
> The other option is to have a postscript to FILE printer set up, specify a
> file share and have a sweeper script check that share for *.ps and do a
> ps2pdf on anything it finds.  With a bit of modification to the
> script, the
> same location may be used for converting any format to another format (eg
> pbm to gif or something) once you have the converter installed.
>
> Something like this:
> [PDF-Convert]
> writeable=yes
> #blah blah
>
> map //server/PDF-Convert to p: in DOS/Win
>
> create a printer to FILE in Windows using a suitable postscript driver
>
> Create the following script on the server and fire it up at boot time
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Postscript to PDF sweeper
> # Author: Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>
> # Date: 8th June 2000
> # Converts any *.ps found in the specified directory to *.pdf and deletes
> the *.ps
> #
> # Licensing:  Use as per GPL
> #
>
> case in $#argv do    #not quite sure of the syntax for "case in"  "$#argv"
> should give the number of arguments passed
> case 3);                    # to the script including "$0" as the name of
> the script.
>     cd $2
>
>     do                        # not quite sure of the infinite loop thing
> but "do... done" should do it.
>         for incoming in `ls *.ps` do
>             outgoing=`basename $incoming ps`pdf
>             ps2pdf $incoming $outgoing
>             rm -f $incoming
>         done
>         sleep $1
>     done
>     ;;
> case *)
>     echo Useage: $0 <Delay in seconds> <Full path to Directory>
>     exit 0
>     ;;
> done
> exit 0
> # end of Postscript to PDF Sweeper
>
>
> Now, If you print to this printer and save your file as "P:\document.ps",
> the sweeper will pick it up, convert to pdf and delete the .ps file.  You
> now end up with "P:\document.pdf" and you're happy.  It's not
> elegant but it
> should work.  Thinks...  Maybe it *is* elegant...
>
> ---
> Conor Daly
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> -------------------------------------
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Trickett <phil at techworks.ie>
> To: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
> Date: 08 June 2000 11:22
> Subject: RE: Print to PDF? Was Re: [ILUG] Image Formats: the end
>
>
> >On a related(ish) note, has anyone set up a 'printer' in linux
> using samba
> >that windoze can print postscript to and the 'printer' will do a
> ps2pdf and
> >dump the file in a directory somewhere?
> >Just checking, as I wanted to do that sort of thing myself, and
> if someone
> >has already done it.....
> >
> >Phil Trickett
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On
> Behalf Of Conor
> >> Daly
> >> Sent: 08 June 2000 11:13
> >> To: ilug at linux.ie
> >> Subject: Print to PDF? Was Re: [ILUG] Image Formats: the end
> >>
> >>
> >> Print to PDF???
> >>
> >> How??
> >>
> >> Or, more to the point, anyone know of a tool to do sgml to pdf?
> >> It's not in
> >> the sgmltools package and I wanna write a HOWTO.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Conor Daly
> >> -------------------------------------
> >> General Forecast Division
> >> Met Eireann
> >> Glasnevin Hill
> >> Dublin 9.
> >>
> >> ph +353 1 8064255
> >> fax +353 1 8064275
> >>
> >> conor.daly at met.ie
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:32:25AM +0100, Liam Bedford  wrote:
> >> >I have to say, pdf would be a good option. If you could OCR
> the tiff, or
> >> just
> >> >print the word document to PDF. It's a lot smaller than the tiff as
> well,
> >> and
> >> >it's scalable. It is also guaranteed to work under most OS's,
> >> even Linux if
> >> >you don't encrypt it (I know that there's ways around it now)..
> >>
> >>
> >>
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