PDF Creator/Shared Printer

[Sean]

Alternatively (and not quite as elegant)...

You could just create something like the distiller watched folder like a
shell script that watches a samba shared directory and polls it every
minute or so to see if there is a file in it. 

They also had a beta of Distiller for linux. I don't know if Adobe ever
finished it or not. 

If you share a folder acrossed the network and leave distiller on the
server thats only one license. 



On 25 Sep 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Should be:
> > 
> >   #!/bin/sh
> >   /usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/$$.pdf
> > 
> > $$.pdf is a cheap hack that will name the pdf file with the process
> > id, (i.e. 1452.pdf) [...]
> 
> A slightly less cheap hack would prevent duplicates and allow for
> ordering in chronological order based on name:
> 	/usr/bin/ps2pdf - /blah/`date +%Y.%m.%m`.$$.pdf
> 
> A good source of info on this sort of thing is the LPRng HOW-TO
> document, which provides lots of advice on how to write filters,
> including parsing command line options from a shell script using
> the shell `getopt' function.
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