> Covert the Word documents to PDF.
>
> You can either buy the tools from Adobe, or, if you have a Linux box
> available on the same network, you can setup a workaround. Setup a printer
> on the Windows box that uses the one of the HP Laserjet PS drivers.
> Configure the print settings to "Print to File". This will create a
> Postscript file that's easily convertable to PDF. When you print
> using this
> printer, save the file onto the Linux box with an extension of ".ps". Then
> login to the Linux box and run "ps2pdf" on the file. If you expect to do
> this a lot, then drop the PS files into a specific directory on the Linux
> box and setup a cron job and a shell script to automate the conversion.
Another option if you have samba running is to setup a samba share that will
accept a ps file and automatically convert it to a pdf. There are a couple
of sites that document this, but the short of it is you need to write a new
printer section in your samba config and override the default print
commands. Mine looks like the following:
[pdf_maker]
comment = create a pdf file
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
printable = yes
print command = /usr/local/bin/pdfmaker %H %s
lppause command = ""
lpresume command = ""
lprm command = ""
queuepause command = ""
queueresume command = ""
Then you will need to have a script for the print command to execute, mine
is fairly simple and I am sure there are better ways to do this.
pdfmaker
-------------------
#!/bin/sh
# Parameters
# $1 - users home directory
# $2 - samba spool file
PDF_DIR="pdf_files"
PS2PDF="/usr/bin/ps2pdf"
SAMBA_SPOOL_DIR="/var/spool/samba"
# Create the target directory for the pdf
# file if it does not exist
if ! [ -d ${1}/${PDF_DIR} ]; then
makdir -p ${1}/${PDF_DIR}
fi
# Convert the spool file to a pdf
${PS2PDF} ${SAMBA_SPOOL_DIR}/${2} ${1}/${PDF_DIR}/${2}.pdf
# Remove the samba spool file
rm ${SAMBA_SPOOL_DIR}/${2}
---------------------
This creates a folder in my home share called pdf_files that contains pdf
files for each of the print jobs sent to the samba printer.
Chad
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