Add cups-pdf to hplip extension
Forum: System
Topic: Add cups-pdf to hplip extension
started by: Juanito
Posted by Juanito on Jan. 11 2008,13:33
I'd like to add a pdf-writer to the hplip extension as a cups backend. I believe OO will write pdf files, but this would allow all other dsl apps to make pdf files.Using this < script > I managed to get the pdf writer to work with hplip but it writes the pdf files to /export/share/pdf or fails because dsl does not recognise the user "guest" that cups/hplip somehow uses and this will not allow the pdf to be written to /home/guest.
Would one of the dsl script gurus mind to modify the script appropriately (i.e. write to /home/dsl/pdf or similar) so I can add it to hplip?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 11 2008,16:05
I assume you're talking about user guest with USERMODE=on ?| Code Sample |
| PRTUSER=$2 |
Posted by curaga on Jan. 11 2008,17:04
Aren't most programs able to do that already? By printing to PS and then using ps2pdf?
Posted by Juanito on Jan. 11 2008,17:53
I guess so, but I was thinking this was a neater way to do it...
Posted by curaga on Jan. 11 2008,18:30
Posted by Juanito on April 08 2008,14:17
Now the new cups extension is out the door, I seem to be making some progress on having a "pdf printer" available in cups using cups-pdf.The pdf printer is automatically recognised by cups, the test page passes out of cups to cups-pdf, but appears to fail at the final hurdle due to some sort of permissions "issue".
If I examine the cups error_log and cut & paste the gs command from the middle of all the yada-yada to a terminal window, it will convert a ps file to pdf. If I try to paste the output to the cups-pdf spooler it fails:
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| $ gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/home/dsl/test.pdf" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f /home/dsl/test.ps [works OK] $ gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/var/spool/cups-pdf/dsl/test.pdf" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f /home/dsl/test.ps **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. $ ls -l /var/spool drwx--x--- 3 root staff 80 Apr 8 16:28 cups drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Apr 8 16:36 cups-pdf $ ls -l /var/spool/cups-pdf drwxr-x--x 2 root staff 60 Apr 8 16:41 SPOOL drwx------ 2 dsl staff 60 Apr 8 16:36 dsl drwx------ 2 root root 60 Apr 8 16:31 root |
Note that my understanding of the normal process is that the print is spooled as a ps file in /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL and then processed to /var/spool/cups-pdf/{user}/*.pdf
Any ideas?
Posted by Juanito on April 15 2008,09:51
As it turns out the whole problem was the gs/cups-pdf looks for /var/tmp to use for working files whereas dsl uses /tmp - aaaargh 
I'll add the now working cups-pdf printer to the cups-1.3.5 extension.
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 15 2008,18:06
iirc, earlier versions of DSL had /tmp point to /var/tmp...but I guess you found a way to specify it
(I was just wondering if it could be useful to add /var/tmp back in)
Posted by Juanito on April 16 2008,03:41
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| but I guess you found a way to specify it |
- /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf allows you to set the gs tmp folder
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| earlier versions of DSL had /tmp point to /var/tmp |
- since dsl uses /tmp, it might be better that /var/tmp -> /tmp?
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 16 2008,07:51
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| - since dsl uses /tmp, it might be better that /var/tmp -> /tmp? |