Guys, I was about to setup Acrophobia but I don't want the file people print to be emailed back. Anyone got a reco on a setup that can be mapped as an SMB printer and return the file back to the user from the printer just like how setup my windows PS printer to print to file.
Thanks! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Guys, I was about to setup Acrophobia but I don't want the file people print to be emailed back. Anyone got a reco on a setup that can be mapped as an SMB printer and return the file back to the user from the printer just like how setup my windows PS printer to print to file.
I remember once using samba+ghostscript to setup a pdf printer plus the point-n-print drivers in the PRINT$ share for it, I then had the outputed PDF dumped to a share with rights just for the user who sent it, had it email the user with the URL of file, and had a cron job run once a day that deleted all PDFs older then X days.
I wish I had the exact recipe, but I remember modifying the samba print commands to send the job to ghostscript with the output path defined and then set the rights on it, then send the email to the user with the URL. Monitoring it is necessary as jobs can hang in the queue.
-Ross
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I remember once using samba+ghostscript to setup a pdf printer plus the point-n-print drivers in the PRINT$ share for it, I then had the outputed PDF dumped to a share with rights just for the user who sent it, had it email the user with the URL of file, and had a cron job run once a day that deleted all PDFs older then X days.
I wish I had the exact recipe, but I remember modifying the samba print commands to send the job to ghostscript with the output path defined and then set the rights on it, then send the email to the user with the URL. Monitoring it is necessary as jobs can hang in the queue.
Sounds good, I was hoping the installed Windows Printer would return the file back to them As if the port was set to a file.
I'll read into this...
Thanks Ross, jlc
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 12:35 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I remember once using samba+ghostscript to setup a pdf printer plus the point-n-print drivers in the PRINT$ share for it, I then had the outputed PDF dumped to a share with rights just for the user who sent it, had it email the user with the URL of file, and had a cron job run once a day that deleted all PDFs older then X days.
I wish I had the exact recipe, but I remember modifying the samba print commands to send the job to ghostscript with the output path defined and then set the rights on it, then send the email to the user with the URL. Monitoring it is necessary as jobs can hang in the queue.
Sounds good, I was hoping the installed Windows Printer would return the file back to them As if the port was set to a file.
I'll read into this...
Ummm what about installing PDFcreator then? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
It's on the default build for all Images I do (I'm still using 0.9.3).
Paul
Ummm what about installing PDFcreator then? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Namely because it is no longer being distributed via msi so I wont waste my time trying to manage it and if the printer was located on a server, it would fit in my login script style nicely :) But that is my last choice, I do use it...
jlc
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 11:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] PDF Print Server
Ummm what about installing PDFcreator then? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Namely because it is no longer being distributed via msi so I wont waste my time trying to manage it and if the printer was located on a server, it would fit in my login script style nicely :) But that is my last choice, I do use it...
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on 9-15-2008 11:17 AM Joseph L. Casale spake the following:
Guys, I was about to setup Acrophobia but I don't want the file people print to be emailed back. Anyone got a reco on a setup that can be mapped as an SMB printer and return the file back to the user from the printer just like how setup my windows PS printer to print to file.
Thanks! jlc
http://www.cups-pdf.de/ But you can't return the file back the way you want to. It will save it in a shareable directory by username, or in the users home directory.
http://www.cups-pdf.de/ But you can't return the file back the way you want to. It will save it in a shareable directory by username, or in the users home directory.
Yeah, this is one option I am looking at. How can I pass the username to it from a windows printer though? If I could map the toplevel directory of my private folders on the CentOS box from the windows fileserver, that would be sweet. I already saw this but didn't see how it gleaned the windows username from the user printing.
Thanks! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
http://www.cups-pdf.de/ But you can't return the file back the way you want to. It
will save it in a shareable directory by username, or in the users home directory.
Yeah, this is one option I am looking at. How can I pass the username to it from a windows printer though? If I could map the toplevel directory of my private folders on the CentOS box from the windows fileserver, that would be sweet. I already saw this but didn't see how it gleaned the windows username from the user printing.
I remember using cups-pdf as a start then modifying the backend script to output the PDF in a public folder with rights as the user. You can get the user that sent the job as a parameter in a CUPS backend, just use that.
-Ross
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on 9-15-2008 8:44 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following:
http://www.cups-pdf.de/ But you can't return the file back the way you want to. It will save it in a shareable directory by username, or in the users home directory.
Yeah, this is one option I am looking at. How can I pass the username to it from a windows printer though? If I could map the toplevel directory of my private folders on the CentOS box from the windows fileserver, that would be sweet. I already saw this but didn't see how it gleaned the windows username from the user printing.
It gets the username from the user that is logged in on the windows box. The same way that your users can auth to a server and have a home directory.
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