On 09/10/15 19:20, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Back in the good old days (F9) I could set up a dummy SMB printer which would
> accept the file and then call a program to deal with it. I used this with
> Apple PS drivers on Windows PC's to create PDF files and email them back to
> the user. These were back in the days before windows PDF printe drivers such
> as CutePDF.
>
> I'm now looking to re-create this on a more modern Fedora box (19, or 21
> depending which box I use). I've installed CUPS-PDF and configured a virtual
> printer. However, I have two problems:
>
> 1) the printer is not storing the file in the directory specified. I set up
> the connection as cups-pdf:/var/spool/cups-pdf/created but it stored the file
> in /root/Desktop/
Are you saying that in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf you changed the default
Out ${DESKTOP} (which on my system causes the pdf to be placed on the calling user's Desktop)
to
Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/created ?
And then restarted the cups service
> 2) I can't see any method of being able to trigger a program to handle the
> newly created file.
How did you see this working? Somehow click on a file and be able to send it to the PDF print queue and then fed to an email client?
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