Cheers Buchan, yeah, I noticed the same FM link (on a couple of occasions), but of course I neglected to bookmark it as a potentially useful utility.
The files will be coming from Quark, running on a Mac. I wrote a quick script to do the conversion, and now all I need is to have it automatically run when one of the users dumps a file in the 'input' directory. Ciao, Paul. On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:58, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Dorman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been hunting around the Net for a utility which automatically > > executes > > > scripts whenever a file is dropped into a particular directory. I can't > > recall what it is called, so I feel that I have to ask you friendly > > folks. > > > Hopefully it's a part of Mandrake, eh! :o) > > I saw one on fm recently (it was updated in the last week), but can't > remember the name, and a quick search didn't find it ... but ... > > > I'd like to create drop off directories where my users can dump .eps > > files, > > > which are then automatically converted to .pdf files by a script I have > > written. I know there is a utility which does this, but I'm unable to > > find > > > it. > > How are users getting the files there? Samba, either via the provided > pdf-print script/virtual printer, or possibly via a magic script may do > what you want. Then again, maybe the cups pdf setup will do what you want? > > Regards, > Buchan
