Re: Help Sought with Samba pseudo printer for PDF...

From: Timothy Stone (citylists_at_petmystone.com)
Date: 11/05/03

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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:08:33 -0500

    Bret Hughes wrote:

    > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:35, Timothy Stone wrote:
    >
    >>Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:11 am, Timothy Stone wrote:
    >>><snip>
    >>>
    >>>>Simple enough, right? Well, something is haywire. The pseudo printer is
    >>>>available to a Windoze client via Add Printer... Printing seems to work
    >>>>at first, but the resulting output is *always* 321 bytes and cannot be
    >>>>opened by Adobe Acrobat. :(
    >>>>
    >
    >
    > <snip>
    >
    >>>Hello,
    >>>Not sure if this is much help, but I followed the same article with some
    >>>slight modification / adjustment to suit my need and it works.
    >>>My suggestion is to test the following:
    >>>
    >>>1. Make sure you can create PDF with the script and everything *on* the linux
    >>>box itself. This is to make sure that your script is really working.
    >>>
    >
    >
    > Great advice
    >
    >
    >>Hmmm... well, this actually produces something I wasn't expecting (using
    >> the script per LG#72):
    >>
    >>[tstone@psyche bin]$ /usr/local/bin/printpdf ~/viEtcHostsHelp.doc
    >>**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
    >>mv: cannot stat `/share/pdfdrop/Nov05-112520.temp': No such file or
    >>directory
    >
    >
    > OK two issues that I see. I think most of these print to a command
    > things assume a postscript input but you are not getting that far due to
    > what looks like permissions on the pdfdrop dir.
    >
    > What user is samba running as?
    > open the perms to 777 and see if you get farther.
    >
    >
    >>[tstone@psyche bin]$ ls /share/pdfdrop
    >>[tstone@psyche bin]$ ls -ld /share/pdfdrop
    >>drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Nov 5 09:34 /share/pdfdrop
    >>[tstone@psyche bin]$ ls -ld /usr/local/bin/printpdf
    >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 879 Nov 5 11:24 printpdf
    >>[tstone@psyche bin]$
    >>
    >
    >
    > once you get that working I am betting that printpdf will puck since it
    > probably does not know what to do with a word document. We did smbfax a
    > wil back that does a similar thing and had to set the windows printer on
    > the client to an apple postscript printer so that what is sent to the
    > samba "printer" is postscript.

    Ahhh...yes, the word document. I should have known better. I fed the
    word doc directly to the script as a test only. You are correct, the
    script is not going to know diddly about the word format. However, what
    about when the user chooses Print... from Micros~1 Word and prints to
    the Pseudo Printer in question, assuming of course that the proper
    Postscript driver is set?

    I'll try the permissions as well as send the script a plain text document. 

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