[ILUG] PDF Creation

[Liam Bedford]

At 18:33 26/04/2001 +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:52:36PM +0100 or thereabouts, Declan Grady wrote:
> > Is there anyhting available which can run like a print server, but create
> > PDF files, instead of producing printed output ?
> >
> > Thinking of an smb print server, for windows clients, with one HP printer,
> > and one PDF-Writer -like printer.
> >
> > Whats the catch ?
>
>Yeah, did that.  May still have scripts lying around.  They'll be in the
>ILUG archive though.
>
>#!/bin/bash
>
>loop:  #Does this work in bash?
>for i in `*.ps`; do
>ps2pdf $i > `basename $i ps`pdf


hmmm.. will this ps2pdf program take stdin?

if so, what about using printcap to do it:

pdf:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf:lp=/dev/null:of=/var/spool/lpd/pdf/filter:

and in /var/spool/lpd/pdf/filter have:
TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/output.XXXXXX`
ps2pdf - > $TMPFILE
cp $TMPFILE wherever (and rename it to whatever)

L.