Chad and Doria Skinner wrote:
>
> > 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}
Chad
I will also look at this suggestion as I do have have a SAMBA network
with 5 Win95B machines and 5 Linux machines and rely heavily on SAMBA.
Thanks for the suggestion and as I said in a previous note, sorry for
being slow in responding.
Ted
>
> ---------------------
>
> 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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