-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:48 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos package to export to eps format
Is there a package available in the CentOS repos that will convert either a MicroSoft Word .doc, an OOo .otd, or an Acrobat .pdf file into eps format? If so, what is its name? If not, What not CentOS packages are available (if any) and recommended to accomplish this?
Yes! It's called cups+ghostscript, there is also a cups filter floating arounds called cups-pdf which does the leg work for you.
Basically cups presents a Postscript printer to the network, pick any good color postscript printer, (add samba for windows printing support and ads publishing) the client machine connects, converts the documents into Postscript for printing, but instead of going to a postscript printer it sends it to ghostscript's ps2pdf converter.
You can add your own little flare to it. I had one running once that would drop the job on a Samba share and send an email with a link to it, you could do the same with Apache, use SSL if it has confidential info, make the name an md5 hash of the document, set a cron job to purge all pdfs > 24 hours old. You get the idea.
-Ross
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