#!/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 ".pdf" or "unknown.pdf", depending wether the # jobname is empty or not. # # Usage: # 1. Copy this script to your backend directory (/usr/lib/cups/backend) # and name it "pdf". # 2. Create a printer in CUPS and use the URI "pdf:/tmp". # 3. Optional: Install either mime-construct or mimeit (part of # metamail) to have the PDF files emailed instead of dumped to dir. # # Copyright (C) Michael Goffioul (goffioul@imec.be) 2001 LOGFILE=/tmp/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 OUTPUTFILENAME= #I found out that when the user 'nobody' prints, the script tries to mail the PDF #to that user - as a local mail. To avoid this, I changed the conditions in the if-statement below. if [ "$2" = "" -o "$2" = "nobody" ]; then OUTPUTFILENAME="$PDFDIR/unknown-$PRINTTIME.pdf" else # OUTPUTFILENAME="$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 $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 #An extra argument in this statement proved to be needed to ensure that after entering #the previous if-statement (in case user is nobody) this if-statement isn't entered as well.. if [ "$2" != "" -a $2 != "nobody" ]; then if [ -x /usr/bin/mime-construct ]; then /usr/bin/mime-construct --to "$2" --subject "PDF print" --type application/pdf --attachment `basename $OUTPUTFILENAME` --file $OUTPUTFILENAME \ && rm $OUTPUTFILENAME elif [ -x /usr/bin/mimeit ]; then cat $OUTPUTFILENAME | /usr/bin/mimeit application/pdf $2 "PDF print" \ && rm $OUTPUTFILENAME else chown $2 $OUTPUTFILENAME fi fi exit 0