For a couple of thousand bucks or so, it's a per user license, you can always use Acrobat Distiller Server software to convert Postscript to pdf and it runs on Solaris, LINUX, and Windows and has the directory autoscanner you seek. I am currently running it on WinNT, plan to move it to Linux or Solaris in the near future. It works the way you want it to, at least under windows. I briefly checked the Sun/Linux doc, it can run as a pipeline filter as well. If all else fails, have the web app drop the files into an incoming directory and have a cron script scan the directory for aged files and process them accordingly to an outgoing directory. You can probably craft something up along the same lines with scripts and ps2pdf instead of using Distiller
My Windows Distiller setup is one master distiller directory, a sub directory for each user on the system and one IN and OUT subfolders under each user directory. The users pop their PS files into the IN folder, distiller scans all the user IN folders every 15 seconds and pumps out the PDF files for each IN folder entry into the OUT folder. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Pifer > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:02 PM > To: RedHat List > Subject: RE: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat > > > Sorry for the late delay. Lost my d*** internet connection. Anyway... > > I got a little more information. The web application sticks > files in a > directory that need to be converted, like a before directory > . So I need > a converter to periodically check that directory, convert > the files, and > stick them in another directory, like an after directory. > > The application itself does not call a printer or print driver. > Unfortunately it's not something that I could easily change either. > > Sorry for the lack of details initially. > > Thanks, > James > > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 17:03, Agrawal, Manish wrote: > > Openoffice will do it too. > > > > Manish > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:38 PM > > To: RedHat List > > Subject: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat > > > > Sorry if this has been asked before. I'm looking for a PDF > converter > > that will run on Linux for a web application. I did some > googling and > > found some that did specific things, like postscript to > PDF, but not > > enough. > > > > There are some apps that run on Windoze that will convert > html, word > > docs, excel docs, text files, JPG, etc to PDF. I'm trying > to find one > > that will do these conversions on a Linux machine or else > I'm going to > > be stuck running Windoze. > > > > Any help is appreciated. Thanks, > > James > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
