pdfwriter print filter

This is a filter for lpd (both the traditional and LPDng are supported) which takes a postscript file and converts it to .pdf format. It then mails the document back to the user (only tested on a SMB network and on a local system).

Installation

First, you need to edit pdfwriter.pl, it holds some important parameters

Secondly you'll have to create a spool directory in /var/spool/ldp/ named (in my case) pdfwrite with the right permissions: user:group is lp:lp and it should only be writeable to user lp.

Finally can use this entry in /etc/printcap:

pdfwrite:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdfwrite:\
        :if=/home/erik/src/pdfwriter/pdfwriter.pl:

Edit it to reflect the actual places you've put the script and the spool directory.

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