brouwers roland lx wrote: > Hello, > > What do I want to do? > Print a worddoc(Microsoft or openoffice) to a printer that will produce > a ps, which has to be transformed to a pdf file, which will be send by > email, as an attachment. > > I am searching the internet for days now, to find a way to produce a > postscript file, without printing to a printer. This file can be > transformed to pdf with ps2pdf. > > Or is there another way? > > Actually I want to configure a small linux installation, where every > workstation, on the network, can send a file to a specified directory. > Some program will pick up everyone of these files, produce a pdf and > send it to an emailaddress as an attachment. You could think of this > installation as a black-box(in: anydoc out:email-with-pdf-attachment) > > Thank for help > > I believe you can set up a CUPS printer that will print to a .pdf file. You can then share this printer over the network. That way, you can skip the ps2pdf step. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!