[Samba] naming the pdf output file

René Nieuwenhuizen R.Nieuwenhuizen at cpb.nl
Mon Nov 25 11:02:00 GMT 2002


Christopher Odenbach heeft geschreven:

>Hi,
>
>  
>
>> > when creating a pdf  file with samba i use
>> > /usr/bin/printpdf %s %U as the print command.
>> > So far everything works fine and the pdf has the same name as the
>> > user.
>> >
>> > But is there any way to use the name of the print job as shown in
>> > the print manager of windows ?
>> > This would mean that when the user prints a file called A0029.xls
>> > the output would be called A0029.pdf
>>
>>Assuming the printerdriver produces postscript you could actually
>>extract the title (%%Title: ..... ) using grep from the spoolfile
>>(%s) and use that as a basis for the pdfname.
>>    
>>
>
>Better: Use the %J parameter - you can find the jobname there. Then 
>write a small script that calls printpdf and renames the output file. 
>Remember quotes!
>  
>

Great! If been running my own postscript analysis scripts for years now 
but this makes life a lot easier...

Thanks for redirecting me at the documents again....

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