PDF Creator/Shared Printer

[Jason Watson]

I'm trying to create a shared printer for windows (using samba on a linux 
box) that instead of actually printing, it creates a .pdf file on a samba 
file share.  I'm using ps2pdf since it is much cheaper than 20 licenses of 
Acrobat distiller.  Samba is set up correctly, the file shares and actual 
printers are accesible and working great.  The problem is getting the 
conversion to .pdf.

My printcap for the pdf printer is as follows:

#PDF Printer
pdf:\
	:sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf:\
	:mx=#0:\
	:lp=/dev/null:\
	:if=/var/spool/lpd/pdf/filter:\
	:sh:

The input filter is a small script that calls ps2pdf and I think this is 
where my problems are occuring.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/ps2pdf $1 /home/samba/pdf_output/$1

I set up the windows clients to use the shared pdf printer using a 
postscript printer driver.  When I print a test page the only thing I get is 
the file -w132.pdf in /var/spool/lpd/pdf.  The file is empty except for the 
standard .pdf headers.  I think the trouble is that the printed file is sent 
to the input filter using STDIN but I'm not sure how to send this to the 
ps2pdf program.  Any suggestions?

Jason Watson
jaywatts@hotmail.com
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