[Samba] PDF Print command

[Dirk Allaert]

If you want to set up a pdf printer with samba, you can also read this 
article:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Since everyone now starts asking me privately how I set up that PDF 
> Printer, I suppose I'd better post that here instead of privately 
> replying to everyone interested ;-)
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have the exact script anymore. However, the 
> procedure is fairly simple: All you need is Samba (obviously), GNU 
> Ghostscript and a way to get the resulting PDF file to the user; I used 
> the 'mime-construct' Perl program for that purpose, but there are other 
> ways too, of course.
> 
> The required ghostscript call is as follows:
> 
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.ps
> 
> You can write a script that takes the path&filename of input.ps and the 
> username as its input (see the '%s' and '%u' Samba substitutions to get 
> these) and that gets the result to the user in some way. As said, I used 
> mime-construct to send the PDF as a MIME-attachement to the user, but 
> this has its drawbacks in that your mailserver administrator may not 
> like someone printing a 30Meg .pdf; you may want to look into putting 
> this in the users' homedirectory or something likewise.
> 
> Then, everything else you need to do is to set up a printer share with 
> the parameter 'print command' set to the name of your script, and 
> install a PostScript printer driver on the users' computer to print to 
> your PDF service (Any postscript printer should do; I used an Apple 
> Laserwriter which worked flawlessly).
> 
> Still, I'd like to know whether someone knows a way to achieve something 
> similar for a disk share ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wouter
> 
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