cups-pdf to local file (in w2k)

[Kurt Pfeifle]

> Hi there
>
> I have a suse 10.2 box, used the cups-pdf script from
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17636.html
>
> I can print out to pdfs say in /exports/share/pdf from anywher in the network crossplatform :-]. what I'd like to do is being able to print to a user selected destination/file such as
>
> /home/groups/projects/xyz/The_very_name_of_the.pdf
>
> path and file name should be selectable by the user.
>
> On a laptop running w2k we have a "pdf"-printer (www.rumborak.de see 'produktives') that does exactly that. It uses ghostscript and redmon to do it. I would like to make this possible serverside. I guess all i'd need is the have the user select/input the filename on beforehand of printing through cups, but
>
> how can I do that?

You can't.

(And the W2K printer can only do it locally, for local users).

What you *could* do (with quite a bit of hacking, and the help of Samba), is to define a separate "PDF" sub directory in the homedir of each domain user (privately owned by the user) and write all PDFs there. (This requires the CUPS backend to run as root, BTW.)

See also this posting of mine: http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:28735

Cheers,
Kurt

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Kurt Pfeifle
System & Network Printing Consultant ---- Linux/Unix/Windows/Samba/CUPS
Infotec Deutschland GmbH - A RICOH Company .......... Stuttgart/Germany