On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:35, Timothy Stone wrote:
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:11 am, Timothy Stone wrote: <snip>
Simple enough, right? Well, something is haywire. The pseudo printer is available to a Windoze client via Add Printer... Printing seems to work at first, but the resulting output is *always* 321 bytes and cannot be opened by Adobe Acrobat. :(
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Hello,
Not sure if this is much help, but I followed the same article with some slight modification / adjustment to suit my need and it works. My suggestion is to test the following:
1. Make sure you can create PDF with the script and everything *on* the linux box itself. This is to make sure that your script is really working.
Great advice
Hmmm... well, this actually produces something I wasn't expecting (using the script per LG#72):
[tstone@psyche bin]$ /usr/local/bin/printpdf ~/viEtcHostsHelp.doc
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
mv: cannot stat `/share/pdfdrop/Nov05-112520.temp': No such file or directory
OK two issues that I see. I think most of these print to a command things assume a postscript input but you are not getting that far due to what looks like permissions on the pdfdrop dir.
What user is samba running as? open the perms to 777 and see if you get farther.
[tstone@psyche bin]$ ls /share/pdfdrop [tstone@psyche bin]$ ls -ld /share/pdfdrop drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Nov 5 09:34 /share/pdfdrop [tstone@psyche bin]$ ls -ld /usr/local/bin/printpdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 879 Nov 5 11:24 printpdf [tstone@psyche bin]$
once you get that working I am betting that printpdf will puck since it probably does not know what to do with a word document. We did smbfax a wil back that does a similar thing and had to set the windows printer on the client to an apple postscript printer so that what is sent to the samba "printer" is postscript.
Ahhh...yes, the word document. I should have known better. I fed the word doc directly to the script as a test only. You are correct, the script is not going to know diddly about the word format. However, what about when the user chooses Print... from Micros~1 Word and prints to the Pseudo Printer in question, assuming of course that the proper Postscript driver is set?
I'll try the permissions as well as send the script a plain text document.
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