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mwestern@sola.com.au

2003-May-15 06:37 UTC

[Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

I've got a nice working pdf samba printer emailing the right person thanks
to PeteFwee and David F and am doing a little testing.  I've just realized
that it's set to Letter when it creates the .pdf file.  and i've googled
till i'm blue in the face and can't see any options that says page size
or
something similar.  i'm running ghostscript 7.04.  

does anybody know how to make ps2pdf do A4 size paper?

Here's my slightly modified script so it mails the user back...

Regards
Matthew

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#!/bin/sh
#
# This script is intended to be used as a CUPS backend, to create
# PDF file on-the-fly. Just create a printer using the device uri
# pdf:/path/to/dir/. When printing to this printer, a PDF file
# will be generated in the directory specified. The file name will
# be either "<jobname>.pdf" or "unknown.pdf",
depending wether the
# jobname is empty or not.
#
# To use it, simply copy this script to your backend directory, and
# create a printer with the correct URI. That's it.
#
# Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (goffioul@imec.be) 2001
LOGFILE=/var/log/cups/pdf.log
PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf`
FILENAME= 
# this is borrowed from printpdf script for the filename
PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`

echo "Executable: $PDFBIN" >> $LOGFILE
echo "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" >> $LOGFILE 
echo $# $PRINTTIME >> $LOGFILE

# case of no argument, prints available URIs
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
	if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then
		exit 0
	fi
	echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\""
	exit 0
fi 

# case of wrong number of arguments
if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then
	echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]"
	exit 1
fi 

# get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status
PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:}
if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then
	echo "ERROR: directory $PDFDIR not writable"
	exit 1
fi 

echo "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE 

# generate output filename
OUTPUTFILENAMEif [ "$3" = "" ]; then
	OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/unknown.pdf"
else
	# OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/${3//[^[:alnum:]]/_}.pdf"
	# I changed this to user name, and the printtime to track down who
	# printed the PDF and when, samba printing just uses nobody

	OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/$2-$PRINTTIME.pdf"
	echo "PDF file: $OUTPUTFILENAME placed in: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE
fi 

echo "Output file name: $OUTPUTFILENAME" >> $LOGFILE 

# run ghostscript
if [ $# -eq 6 ]; then
#	$PDFBIN  -dPpdfSettings=/default $6 "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
	$PDFBIN  $6 "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
#>& /dev/null
else
	$PDFBIN - "$OUTPUTFILENAME" >& /dev/null
fi

# modify ownership and permissions on the file
#  - world readable
#  - owns to user specified in argument
chmod a+r "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
if [ "$2" != "" ]; then
	chown $2 "$OUTPUTFILENAME"
fi 


#Sendmail to the owner.
DATE=`date +%d%b%Y-%H:%M:%S`

MAILFILE=/tmp/mailtemp
HEADER=/tmp/header

TO=$2'@sola.com.au'
SUBJECT='PDF Printer Job'
BODY='PDF Created: '$DATE

echo From: PDFPrinter@sola.com.au >> $HEADER
echo To: $TO >> $HEADER
#echo Cc: $CC >> $HEADER
#echo Bcc: $BCC >> $HEADER
echo Subject: $SUBJECT >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER
echo $BODY >> $HEADER
echo "" >> $HEADER

cat $HEADER > $MAILFILE
uuencode $OUTPUTFILENAME $2-$PRINTTIME.pdf >> $MAILFILE
cat $MAILFILE | /usr/lib/sendmail -t

rm $MAILFILE
rm $HEADER


exit 0

Matthew Western

2003-May-15 06:39 UTC

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[Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

Hi all,

I've got a nice working pdf samba printer emailing the right person thanks
to PeteFwee and David F and am doing a little testing. I've just realized
that it's set to Letter when it creates the .pdf file. and i've googled
till i'm blue in the face and can't see any options that says page size
or something similar. i'm running ghostscript 7.04.

does anybody know how to make ps2pdf do A4 size paper?

Here's my slightly modified script so it mails the user back...

Regards

Matthew

_________________________________

#!/bin/sh

#

# This script is intended to be used as a CUPS backend, to create

# PDF file on-the-fly. Just create a printer using the device uri

# pdf:/path/to/dir/. When printing to this printer, a PDF file

# will be generated in the directory specified. The file name will

# be either "<jobname>.pdf" or "unknown.pdf",
depending wether the

# jobname is empty or not.

#

# To use it, simply copy this script to your backend directory, and

# create a printer with the correct URI. That's it.

#

# Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (goffioul@imec.be) 2001

LOGFILE=/var/log/cups/pdf.log

PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf`

FILENAME= 

# this is borrowed from printpdf script for the filename

PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`

echo "Executable: $PDFBIN" >> $LOGFILE

echo "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" >> $LOGFILE 

echo $# $PRINTTIME >> $LOGFILE

# case of no argument, prints available URIs

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then

if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then

exit 0

fi

echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\""

exit 0

fi 

# case of wrong number of arguments

if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then

echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]"

exit 1

fi 

# get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status

PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:}

if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then

echo "ERROR: directory $PDFDIR not writable"

exit 1

fi 

echo "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE

Kurt Pfeifle

2003-May-15 15:23 UTC

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[Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

Matthew Western mwestern at affairs.net.au wrote on Samba-Digest:
> Thu May 15 16:09:39 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a nice working pdf samba printer emailing the right person > thanks to PeteFwee and David F and am doing a little testing. I've
 > just realized that it's set to Letter when it creates the .pdf file.
 > and i've googled till i'm blue in the face and can't see any
options
 > that says page size or something similar. i'm running ghostscript
7.04.> does anybody know how to make ps2pdf do A4 size paper?
 From the script below I conclude you are using it based on CUPS
(though you don't mention it.)

CUPS uses "PPDs" to configure printers and to offer user-selectable
printjob options that may be applied to the printer.

This PPD may or may not include an option to change paper sizes
(depending on the printer).

A "PDF" printer can certainly support various paper sizes. There is
no "ideal" PPD for a PDF printer out there. I may go on a write one
as soon as I find the time. For the time being, you may want to resort
to the distiller.ppd (which users of Acrobat Distiller on Windows may
have in their [print$] share. This gives you options to select paper
size as well as resolutions of vector-based graphics in the output.

Which PPD is used for your current PDF printer?

You may want to read the short HOWTO posted by "Tom" in March on this
list, or the whole thread about it with lots of background info:

    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-March/093504.html
    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-April/093503.html

The general (CUPS) printing background explanations are here:

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/kpfeifle/SambaPrintHOWTO/

Cheers,
Kurt
> Here's my slightly modified script so it mails the user back...
BTW, there is no modification obvious in what you posted....
> Regards
> 
> Matthew
> 
Cheers,
Kurt

Wolfram Quester

2003-May-15 15:52 UTC

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[Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

Hi Matthew,


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:09:39PM +0930, Matthew Western
wrote:> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a nice working pdf samba printer emailing the right person
thanks to PeteFwee and David F and am doing a little testing. I've just
realized that it's set to Letter when it creates the .pdf file. and i've
googled till i'm blue in the face and can't see any options that says
page size or something similar. i'm running ghostscript 7.04.
I agree it's quite hard to find. if you do man ps2pdf you can read
> SEE ALSO
>        gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
>        Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation       
In Ps2pdf.htm you find that it understands all options from gs(1), so you
have to do man gs(1), where you can read
> To select a specific paper size, use the command line switch
> 	-sPAPERSIZE=a_known_paper_size
> for instance
> 	-sPAPERSIZE=a4
> or
> 	-sPAPERSIZE=legal
<...snip...>> 
> # Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (goffioul@imec.be) 2001
> 
> LOGFILE=/var/log/cups/pdf.log
> 
> PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf`
Please correct me, if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the purposes of
variables
like these is to prevent scripts from executing binaries provided by the
user. These binaries can do things not intended by the original author of 
the script. Your method to initialize the PDFBIN variable does not
ensure this prevention. To make sure the script uses the correct ps2pdf
you should use the absolute path.

I'm not seeing where you call ps2pdf in your script and mail it back to
the user. Is it just for testing purposes or a script running before
another one?

Best regards,

Wolfi
> 
> FILENAME= 
> 
> # this is borrowed from printpdf script for the filename
> 
> PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
> 
> echo "Executable: $PDFBIN" >> $LOGFILE
> 
> echo "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" >> $LOGFILE 
> 
> echo $# $PRINTTIME >> $LOGFILE
> 
> # case of no argument, prints available URIs
> 
> if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
> 
> if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then
> 
> exit 0
> 
> fi
> 
> echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\""
> 
> exit 0
> 
> fi 
> 
> # case of wrong number of arguments
> 
> if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then
> 
> echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]"
> 
> exit 1
> 
> fi 
> 
> # get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status
> 
> PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:}
> 
> if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then
> 
> echo "ERROR: directory $PDFDIR not writable"
> 
> exit 1
> 
> fi 
> 
> echo "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE 
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Matthew Western

2003-May-15 23:05 UTC

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[Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

Mate you are a legend. it was the end of the day and my eyes had dropped out
due to too much reading. I appreciate it very much indeed..... now to
impress the users with free .pdfs :)
thanks & regards
Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfram Quester
[mailto:wquester@mittelerde.physik.uni-konstanz.de]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:22 AM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Cc: Matthew Western
Subject: Re: [Samba] PDF Samba Printer - ps2pdf Only Letter Size?

Hi Matthew,

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:09:39PM +0930, Matthew Western
wrote:> Hi all,
>
> I've got a nice working pdf samba printer emailing the right person
thanksto PeteFwee and David F and am doing a little testing. I've just realized
that it's set to Letter when it creates the .pdf file. and i've googled
till
i'm blue in the face and can't see any options that says page size or
something similar. i'm running ghostscript 7.04.
I agree it's quite hard to find. if you do man ps2pdf you can
read> SEE ALSO
> gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
> Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentationIn Ps2pdf.htm you find that it understands all options from gs(1), so you
have to do man gs(1), where you can read> To select a specific paper size, use the command line switch
> -sPAPERSIZE=a_known_paper_size
> for instance
> -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> or
> -sPAPERSIZE=legal
<...snip...>>
> # Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (goffioul@imec.be) 2001
>
> LOGFILE=/var/log/cups/pdf.log
>
> PDFBIN=`which ps2pdf`Please correct me, if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the purposes of
variables
like these is to prevent scripts from executing binaries provided by the
user. These binaries can do things not intended by the original author of
the script. Your method to initialize the PDFBIN variable does not
ensure this prevention. To make sure the script uses the correct ps2pdf
you should use the absolute path.
I'm not seeing where you call ps2pdf in your script and mail it back to
the user. Is it just for testing purposes or a script running before
another one?
Best regards,
Wolfi>
> FILENAME>
> # this is borrowed from printpdf script for the filename
>
> PRINTTIME=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
>
> echo "Executable: $PDFBIN" >> $LOGFILE
>
> echo "Arguments: |$1|$2|$3|$4|$5|$6|" >> $LOGFILE
>
> echo $# $PRINTTIME >> $LOGFILE
>
> # case of no argument, prints available URIs
>
> if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
>
> if [ ! -x "$PDFBIN" ]; then
>
> exit 0
>
> fi
>
> echo "direct pdf \"Unknown\" \"PDF Writing\""
>
> exit 0
>
> fi
>
> # case of wrong number of arguments
>
> if [ $# -ne 5 -a $# -ne 6 ]; then
>
> echo "Usage: pdf job-id user title copies options [file]"
>
> exit 1
>
> fi
>
> # get PDF directory from device URI, and check write status
>
> PDFDIR=${DEVICE_URI#pdf:}
>
> if [ ! -d "$PDFDIR" -o ! -w "$PDFDIR" ]; then
>
> echo "ERROR: directory $PDFDIR not writable"
>
> exit 1
>
> fi
>
> echo "PDF directory: $PDFDIR" >> $LOGFILE
> --
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