Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:19:45 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: eric@tek-shop.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf print server Message-ID: <200111202319.fAKNJjJ12456@mikko.rsa.com> References: <200111201842.fAKIgW935286@syndicate.tek-shop.com>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write: >I'm trying to set up a printer server for Mac, windows, and BSD clients to >print to. In conjunction with our web server, I'd like users of the web site >to click little buttons that tell the server to print a file (mostly pdf's). >This seems easy enough with cgi/perl/shell scripts, but I don't know of a >program that can decode and print a pdf besides Acrobat, which means I'd have >to install linux base and X windows just to keep Acrobat happy. >Anybody know of a simple command line program that can take a pdf and print >it?? Ghostscript can be built without X11 (/usr/ports/print/ghostscript*-nox11) and comes with a "pdf2ps" script. Xpdf is a light-weight pdf viewer. The port installs the command-line tool "pdftops" which has no dependencies on X (you need X11 to build the port, but I suppose you could build just the non-X11 bits by hand if you are really desperate ;-). $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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