Linux + Cups is great!!!

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael J. Pawlowsky" <mikep at mi-consultants.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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