Re: Linux + Cups is great!!!

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J. Pawlowsky" <mikep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Linux + Cups is great!!!



Hi VJ.

I just did something similar, but using Alambic (Written in C). Same idea. It would not compile right away so I need to go in and tweak it. Now I am making my own modifications to it and I have a PDF writer installed that anyone can print to (in my network).
It's is great stuff indeed! Of course I could have just as easily used a quick shell script to goto ps2pdf, but I felt like playing in the C code.


I just want to tell you that there's a modified cups-pdf that sends out the PDF to a users e-mail. The only hassle with it is that it uses metamail that hasn't been supported in a long time. But it might give you some ideas.

Take a look at:  http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/linux/acdpdf/

Cheers,
Mike


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am So, den 28.11.2004 schrieb VJ um 22:06:


I downloaded and studied the code of cups-pdf and it made me learn something about cups. I wrote my own filter which at present does nothing but copies the postscript file to a particular directory. That too in just about 60 lines of code!!! All that took about 20 minutes :-)


It is always nice to read success stories - not only problem reports ;-)


I am planning to writ my own version of cups-pdf which can do following
1) Put pdf file in a particular directory or in user's home directory.
2) Send pdf file to the user who printed that file as a mail attachment.



If you do so, please consider to write a handy howto. You can ask for contribution on www.fedoranews.org.


This is a good learning experience. I like open-source.


Share your intellectual properties.


VJ

Regards

Alexander





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I already have this thing implemented for my windows clients to 'print to PDF' and that uses a shell script to do so. Even though it worked, I just wanted to dirty my hands with C. thanks for the info, but from this onwards I want to proceed on my own, learning on my way.


Regards
VJ



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