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Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript -> samba -> PDF -> email attachment

Marc Wilson wrote:


On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:59:58PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
I'm more looking for a solution that uses cups/lprng/lpr to queue to ps2pdf then to a file that will be emailed to the user. 


How about this, which is more than likely a gross hack, but works for me?
OK, this looks workable. I'll send you a cleanup patch once I get it working the way I want.
Which debian package do you think would be a good candidate to submit this to (after the cleanup of course) as an example script? 

Mike



*****
/etc/printcap:
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pdf|pdfwriter|PDF_Writer
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf
:lp=/dev/null
:if=/usr/local/bin/pdffilter
:mx#0
:sh
:rg=printers

*****
/usr/local/bin/pdffilter:
*****

#!/bin/bash
# pdffilter - take in postcript, output PDF, mail to submitter

# Marc Wilson (msw@cox.net)

# uncomment the following line to enable entirely too much output...
#DEBUG=yes

ENSCRIPT="/usr/bin/enscript"
ENSCRIPTOPTS="-Bh -M letter -p -"
GS="/usr/bin/gs"
GSOPTS="-q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 -dPDFSETTINGS=/default"
MUTT="/usr/bin/mutt"
LOGGER="/usr/bin/logger"
FACILITY="lpr.debug"

TEMPORARY=`mktemp /tmp/pdfwrite_XXXXXXXX`

JOBNO=000`echo $CONTROL | cut --delim=+ -f 2 | cut --delim=" " -f 1`
CONTROLFILE=hfA`echo $JOBNO | sed 's/.*\(...\)$/\1/'`

MAILTO=`cat $CONTROLFILE | grep ^P | cut --delim="=" -f 2`
INPUTFILE=`cat $CONTROLFILE | grep ^J | cut --delim="=" -f 2`
OUTPUTFILE="/tmp/`echo $INPUTFILE | rev | cut --delim="/" -f 1 | rev`.pdf"

if [ ! -x "$MUTT" ] || [ ! -x "$ENSCRIPT" ] || [ ! -x "$GS" ]; then exit 1 ; fi

if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: TEMPORARY   = $TEMPORARY
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: JOBNO       = $JOBNO
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: CONTROLFILE = $CONTROLFILE
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: MAILTO      = $MAILTO
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: INPUTFILE   = $INPUTFILE
    $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: OUTPUTFILE  = $OUTPUTFILE
fi

# save the input stream

cat > $TEMPORARY

# let's make sure of what this job is BEFORE we try to print it, shall we?

if (file $TEMPORARY | grep PostScript >/dev/null 2>&1); then
	# ok, it's PS, use ghostscript to print it
	if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Input to PDF filter is PostScript ; fi
	$GS $GSOPTS -sOutputFile="$OUTPUTFILE" $TEMPORARY
	if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Mailing result to $MAILTO ; fi
	$MUTT $MAILTO -s "Your PDF print job '$INPUTFILE'" -a "$OUTPUTFILE" < /dev/null
	rm $TEMPORARY
	exit 0
elif (file $TEMPORARY | grep text >/dev/null 2>&1); then
	# not PS, file(1) thinks it's text so go with that
	if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Input to PDF filter is ASCII text ; fi
	$ENSCRIPT $ENSCRIPTOPTS $TEMPORARY | $GS $GSOPTS -sOutputFile="$OUTPUTFILE" -
	if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: Mailing result to $MAILTO ; fi
	$MUTT $MAILTO -s "Your PDF print job '$INPUTFILE'" -a "$OUTPUTFILE" < /dev/null
	rm $TEMPORARY
	exit 0
else
	# it's not PostScript, and it's not text, so fail out
	if [ "$DEBUG" ]; then $LOGGER -p $FACILITY pdf: ERROR: Unrecognizable input to PDF filter ; fi
	exit 1
fi

Ugly, huh?  But it works.
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