From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 16:36:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B55C237B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82153 invoked by uid 100); 21 Nov 2001 00:37:03 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15354.63279.189435.227943@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:37:03 -0600 To: Eric Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pdf print server In-Reply-To: <94531476@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Eric types: > 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?? Depends on what kind of printer you have. Ghostscript can print pdf files, assuming there's a driver for your printer. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message