Create a virtual postscript printer

[Beat Wolf]

Of course this application would only work if the cups server is local.

But i see the problem.
Is there any way to intercept the postscript before it goes to the printer, that works for any application? Is there realy no way to create a printer that takes the postscript file and stores it in /tmp/whatever?

thank you very much for your fast anwser, you are helping us alot

Beat Wolf

>
> Hello,
>
> On Feb 20 01:08 Beat Wolf wrote (shortened):
> > ... create a virutal printer, that takes the print job and saves the
> > postscript file to a specific folder, and launches an application afterwards.
>
> It is not possible to be implemented in the printing system,
> it must be implemented in the application, see
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-02/msg00036.html
>
> How should a service (here the printing system) launch an application
> on the user's desktop on the user's workstation when the service
> runs as different user on a different machine in the network?
>
> It must be implemented the other way round:
> The client initiates the access to the server.
> Not the server initiates an access to a client.
>
> Nobody would allow arbitraty programs running as arbitraty users
> on arbitraty machines to access his own workstation or even his
> own personal environment - or is there somewhere an operating system
> out there which allows such nonsense?
> ;-)
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
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