[Samba] PDF Print command

[Dirk ALLAERT]

If you use something like:
ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp
mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf
you have to watch out for permissions, the user who prints has to be
able to write to $OUTDIR.
 
you probably should add some debug statements to the script.
maybe something like:
ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp 2>>/tmp/mylog >>/tmp/mylog
mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf 2>>/tmp/mylog  >>/tmp/mylog

	-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- 
	Van: Blanchard, Michael 
	Verzonden: di 26/03/2002 16:46 
	Aan: Dirk ALLAERT; samba at lists.samba.org 
	CC: 
	Onderwerp: RE: [Samba] PDF Print command
	
	

	I went through all the steps, and the print jobs just tend to
disappear.
	I've looked through all the logs and nothing tells me where it's
falling
	down.  I installed the drivers, added all the items to smb.conf
and it
	looks perfect from the client side.
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: Dirk Allaert [mailto:da at schaubroeck.be]
	Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:24 AM
	To: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
	Subject: Re: [Samba] PDF Print command
	
	
	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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