Linux + Cups is great!!!

[Michael J. Pawlowsky]

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:
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>>    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 :-)
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>It is always nice to read success stories - not only problem reports ;-)
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>>    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.
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>If you do so, please consider to write a handy howto. You can ask for
>contribution on www.fedoranews.org.
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>>This is a good learning experience. I like open-source.
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>Share your intellectual properties.
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>>VJ 
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>Regards
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>Alexander
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