PDF Creator/Shared Printer

[Jason Justman]

weird.  yes, it appears to expand properly, but when fed input from command line
redirect, it doesnt like it..

/usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/`date +%Y.%m.%m`.$$.pdf <
pdf_output/offlineform.ps
%%[ Page: 1 ]%%
%%[ LastPage ]%%
%%[ Error: undefinedfilename; OffendingCommand:
/home/samba/pdf_output/2000.09.09.1004.pdf ]%%

and i'll get output with
[jason@poleposition samba]# ls -l
-rw-rw-r--   1 jason    jason         6740 Sep 28 12:28 2000.09.09.1004.pdf.pdf

maybe ps2pdf doesnt play nicely?

Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Jason Justman <justmanj@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > When I try to use your hack like this:
> >
> > /usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/`date +%Y.%m.%m`.$$.pdf
> >
> > I end up getting an additional 2 pages to the PDF document stating
> > 'ERROR: undefinedfilename
> > OFFENDING COMMAND: /home/samba/pdf_output/1852.pdf
> > STACK:'
> >
> > and the doc doesnt show up in /home/samba/pdf_output.
>
> blp:~(0)$ echo /usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/`date +%Y.%m.%m`.$$.pdf
> /usr/bin/ps2pdf - /home/samba/pdf_output/2000.09.09.627.pdf
>
> So I can't see that the problem could be in the command--it's
> expanding the way it should.
>
> > What version of ps2pdf are you using?
>
> I dunno, but it came with Debian "gs" version 5.10-10.