Printer filter - convert to ps then to pdf

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I currently have a driver located in /etc/cups/interfaces that does the following:

job="$1"
user="$2"
title="$3"
numcopies="$4"
options="$5"
filename="$6"

# Set up printer default modes

echo -e "\033E\c"
echo -e "\033)0B\c"

cat "$filename"

So then I want to do something like the command enscript does.

enscript -p temp.ps file.txt

Then do ps2pdf

p2pdf temp.ps output.pdf

but not sure how I can include that information in the file. I also don't want it to print the file (cat "$filename")

Basically I want to end up with a print driver that when I send text and certain options it will ether:

convert to postscript then to pdf
or
convert to postsctipt then to pdf then email out the file.
or just print to a normal printer.

so i would do something like at the command line:

lp -dprinter -email /etc/hosts

Which would convert the hosts file to postscript then to pdf then email out to an address.

Is it possible?

2

There are txt2pdf utilities available that would skip doing the postscript step.

Under Sun Solaris mp(1) (Magic Print) will do a text to postscript conversion for you with header footer, page numbering, etc for you.

HTH

3

Hi,

Yes I have found similar:

enscript
ps2pdf

Which will convert the text to a postscript file then convert it to a PDF.

Now I am building the script to go with this.

I am sent a string of options which will be seperated by spaces in a variable.

What I need to do is search that variable for certian words and execute commands based on if i find that word.

For example:

The string might hold 'foo tipple'

I would want to may execute a certain command if I find 'foo' in the variable.

But also if I find 'foo' and 'tipple' I would want to execute a different command.

Basically I want to separate the initial string into multiple variables.

Maybe the awk command? NEver used it though.

Make sense?