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Robert, are you still maintaining this?
There is a bug report here - http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6094 - that anyone following this howto may need to be aware of.
Also another bug report here - http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5877
Here is an adaptation of the pdf printer that is installed by cups-pdfdistiller which won't drop the file in a certain folder on your server, but instead delivers it in the mailbox of the user who printed the file.
#!/bin/sh # # This script is intended to be used as a CUPS backend, to create # PDF file on-the-fly. Just create a printer using the device uri # pdf:/path/to/dir/. When printing to this printer, a PDF file # will be generated in the directory specified. The file name will # be either "<jobname>.pdf" or "unknown.pdf", depending wether the # jobname is empty or not. # # To use it, simply copy this script to your backend directory, and # create a printer with the correct URI. That's it. # # Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (kdeprint <at> swing <dot> be) 2001 # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA LOGFILE=/var/log/pdf.log function log { if [ "$2" == "" ]; then echo $(date +%c) [notice] $1 >> $LOGFILE else echo $(date +%c) [$2] $1 >> $LOGFILE fi } log "Executable: $PDFBIN" log "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" # case of no argument, prints available URIs if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then exit 0 fi echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\"" exit 0 fi # case of wrong number of arguments if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]" log "No arguments supplied" "error" exit 1 fi # get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:} if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then log "Directory \"$PDFDIR\" not writable" "error" exit 1 fi PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf14` PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S` print "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE # generate output filename if [ "$3" = "" ]; then PDFFILENAME="$PDFDIR/unknown.pdf" else # PDFFILENAME="$PDFDIR/${3//[^[:alnum:]]/_}.pdf" # I changed this to user name, and the printtime to track down who # printed the PDF and when, samba printing just uses nobody # PDFFILENAME="$PDFDIR/$2-$PRINTTIME.pdf" PDFFILENAME="$3.pdf" fi log "Output file name: $PDFDIR/$PDFFILENAME" # run ghostscript if [ $# -eq 6 ]; then $PDFBIN $6 "$PDFDIR/$PDFFILENAME" else $PDFBIN - "$PDFDIR/$PDFFILENAME" >& /dev/null fi MAILTIME=`date +%c` # Store users e-mailadress in variable named 'TO' # Username is received via the second argument of the modified printcommand of the PDF printer # append @yourdomain.com to create a valid email address DOMAIN=`/sbin/e-smith/db configuration get DomainName` TO=$2@$DOMAIN # Create a temp file to hold the mailbody # Available variables: # $1 - Job number # $2 - User name # $3 - Printjob name # $4 - Number of copies MAIL=$OUTDIR/$2$PRINTTIME.txt echo "" >> $MAIL echo "Hello $2," >> $MAIL echo "Here's your requested PDF file." >> $MAIL echo "" >> $MAIL echo "Job Number : pdf-$1" >> $MAIL echo "Title : $3" >> $MAIL echo "Submitted at : $MAILTIME" >> $MAIL echo "Attached as : $PDFFILENAME." >> $MAIL # Use mutt to generate an email containing the text above and has the PDF attached mutt -a "$PDFDIR/$PDFFILENAME" -i $MAIL -s "$3 (pdf-$1)" $TO log "PDF file \"$PDFFILENAME\" mailed to $TO" rm -rf $MAIL rm -rf "$PDFDIR/$PDFFILENAME" exit 0
You can easily install this script:
- Backup the original file; cp /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf.old
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nano /usr/lib/cups/backend/pdf
Paste the script there end save using Ctrl+O, after that exit with Ctrl+X.
May be usesful add a reference to http://wiki.contribs.org/Printer_Drivers_for_Windows_Workstations
--Normando Hall 09:38, 5 November 2007 (MST)