From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 15:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.rsasecurity.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 683BA37B41A for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdtihq24.securitydynamics.com by tholian.rsasecurity.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 20 Nov 2001 23:20:31 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18688 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:19:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id fAKNJoL27643 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:19:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 13178 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2001 23:19:48 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 20 Nov 2001 23:19:48 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAKNJjJ12456; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:19:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:19:45 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200111202319.fAKNJjJ12456@mikko.rsa.com> To: eric@tek-shop.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf print server Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <200111201842.fAKIgW935286@syndicate.tek-shop.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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