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Old 01-13-2003, 05:02 AM   #1
moot
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Ghostscript printing


Hi - I wanna config my PC so when I press the "print" button the machine sends a print job to the printer [on LPT1 or TCP/IP] and it automatically generates a PDF of the same output.

I think I can use Ghostscript to do this, but do not know how to script this. Anyideas please?

TIA - Moot out .....
 
Old 01-31-2003, 05:05 AM   #2
emanuelgreisen
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First, in what program is the "print" button ?
second, can you print to your printer right now ? (using lpr filename.ps)
You might have to make a shellscript of some sort and run that from your app instead of lpr directly. The script would then take the input print it and save it to /tmp/tmp.ps, then use ps2pdf to convert into a PDF file. and remove the temporary files. something like this

#!/bin/bash
#
# super print script
#
# read from stdin (not sure if this will work)
cat $@ > /tmp/tmp.ps

# print the file
lpr /tmp/tmp.ps

# create the pdf-file
DATE=`date`
ps2pdf "/tmp/tmp.ps" "/home/myuser/pdfs/print-$DATE.pdf"

#remove old temp file
rm -f /tmp/tmp.ps
 
  


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