[Samba] pdf-printer

[mourik jan heupink]

Hi Louis,

Interesting idea. :-) Could you give some examples..?

MJ

On 06/30/2015 01:46 PM, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
> Hai Koenraad, 
> 
> Just a suggest, what about and email adres to create your pdf files. 
> thats what im doing here. 
> like companypaper at domain.tld , which generates from excel doc etc to a pdf file with companypaper. 
> or   plain at domain.tld same as above but no company logo. 
> or   multipdf at domain.tld merge mutiple pdf files to 1. ( or multiple doc/xls files ) 
> and this is much faster for us then use cups-pdf. 
> im have my emails generated in few seconds and back in my mailbox. 
> 
> If you need some examples, just ask. 
> all above is done on a debian wheezy system, and the temp folders for generating pdf files are ramdisks. 
> 
> 
> Greetz, 
> 
> Louis
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: samba.k.lelong at ace-electronics.be 
>> [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Koenraad Lelong
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 30 juni 2015 13:40
>> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] pdf-printer
>>
>> Op 30-06-15 om 11:28 schreef Rowland Penny:
>>> On 30/06/15 10:24, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 30/06/15 10:10, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>>>>> Op 30-06-15 om 08:58 schreef Rowland Penny:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, did you read to the bottom of this wiki page :
>>>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Virtual_PDF_Printer#Setup
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By my reading, if you add what it tells you, you should 
>> find a new log
>>>>>> file in '/var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rowland
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes I did read that, but there is no output to that log-file, it's
>>>>> not created either.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is my printer section :
>>>>> [Pdfprinter]
>>>>>         comment = Samba Virtual PDF Printer
>>>>>         path = /var/spool/samba
>>>>>         printable = Yes
>>>>>         lpq command =
>>>>>         lprm command =
>>>>>         print command = /usr/bin/pdfprint.sh -s %f -d 
>> /home/%U -o %U
>>>>> -m 600 -l /var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log
>>>>>
>>>>> Slighty modified (other path, no uppercase), and all on 
>> one line. And
>>>>> pdfprint.sh is located in /usr/bin and executable by all.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the print command manually (as root) and that works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Koenraad.
>>>>
>>>> This sounds like a permission problem, if you examine the 
>> script, the
>>>> logfile is created here:
>>>>
>>>> # Print messages to stdout / logfile
>>>> output () {
>>>>     if [ -z "$LOG" ] ; then
>>>>         echo -e "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S") $*"
>>>>     else
>>>>         echo -e "$(date "+%b %d %H:%M:%S") $*" | tee -a "$LOG"
>>>>     fi
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I think if you look now, the logfile will exist.
>>>>
>>>> If the logfile exists, I would suggest temporarily making it world
>>>> writeable (chmod +w
>>>>
>>>> /var/log/samba/Pdfprint.log
>>>>
>>> OOPs wrong button :-[
>>>
>>> Anyway, once you have the logfile and it is world writable, 
>> try again as
>>> a normal user and see if you get anything in the logfile.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>
>> The file is -rw-rw-rw-, but still no output.
>> That's why I was trying to generate a samba-log-file, to see if there 
>> were permission-errors or something.
>>
>> Any idea what log-level will give meaningfull output, but is still 
>> managable ? Can I get logging for printing alone ?
>>
>> Koenraad
>>
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