Skrevs ursprungligen av Taz_1999
Fundering om CUPS: Är det möjligt att skapa en skrivare som alltid producerar PDF-filer?
Målet för mig är att kunna scripta utskrifter som blir PDF-filer på ett hyggligt enkelt sätt.
Några tips?
/Ola
Visst! Skapa en textfil av nedanstående och anropa den som backend till CUPS:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script is intended to be used as a CUPS backend, to create
# PDF file on-the-fly. Just create a printer using the device uri
# pdf:/path/to/dir/. When printing to this printer, a PDF file
# will be generated in the directory specified. The file name will
# be either "<jobname>.pdf" or "unknown.pdf", depending wether the
# jobname is empty or not.
#
# To use it, simply copy this script to your backend directory, and
# create a printer with the correct URI. That's it.
#
# Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul ([email protected]) 2001
LOGFILE=/tmp/pdf.log
PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf`
FILENAME=
# this is borrowed from printpdf script for the filename
PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
echo "Executable: $PDFBIN" > $LOGFILE
echo "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" >> $LOGFILE
echo $# $PRINTTIME >> $LOGFILE
# case of no argument, prints available URIs
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then
exit 0
fi
echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\""
exit 0
fi
# case of wrong number of arguments
if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then
echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]"
exit 1
fi
# get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status
PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:}
if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then
echo "ERROR: directory $PDFDIR not writable"
exit 1
fi
echo "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE
# generate output filename
OUTPUTFILENAME=
if [ "$3" = "" ]; then
OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/unknown.pdf"
else
# OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/${3//[^[:alnum:]]/_}.pdf"
# I changed this to user name, and the printtime to track down who
# printed the PDF and when, samba printing just uses nobody
OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/$2-$PRINTTIME.pdf"
echo "PDF file: $OUTPUTFILENAME placed in: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE
fi
echo "Output file name: $OUTPUTFILENAME" >> $LOGFILE
# run ghostscript
if [ $# -eq 6 ]; then
$PDFBIN $6 "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
#>& /dev/null
else
$PDFBIN - "$OUTPUTFILENAME" >& /dev/null
fi
# modify ownership and permissions on the file
# - world readable
# - owns to user specified in argument
chmod a+r "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
chown $2 "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
fi
exit 0