From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 3 12:33:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492B337B401 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:33:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4401D43F93 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:33:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h33KZF1W030216 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:35:16 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h33KXLwk044035 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:33:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h33KXKIP044009 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:33:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h33KXKcL044008 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:33:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:33:20 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030403153320.A43931@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Subject: customizing printcap to email file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:33:24 -0000 what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap if= entry to take the file and save it as a file. That was a no go - I just got an error. Now I am thinking about just stopping the printer, which would spool the files in the spool directory. I still need to initiate execution of a program to grab those files and convert them. I am about to start experimenting with this, but I thought that someone might have already done this type of thing.