Frank Foss wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I have a Linux/Samba "pseudo"-printer set up to generate PDFs and copy to a
> shared directory. Works great. It doesn't create meaningful file names, but
> that is a minor issue. (Is there any way of grabbing the name of the
> original document and use it?)

Haven't tried it ( yet ), but maybe using the info here :
http://linux-sxs.org/networking/PDF_...ing_Samba.html

>
> My other question is about the "drag-and-drop" generation:
> Let's say a Windows-user drags a document into the aforementioned shared
> PDF-folder.
> Let's say it is a textfile, or a Word-document.
> Is there some mechanism/event that can be used to automatically generate a
> PDF of this document and place that file in the folder? Or a 1-minute
> cron-job if Samba 'events' can't be used or don't exist.
> Can OpenOffice (or some other tool) be used for this kind of pre-print
> processing?
>

OO can export to pdf. Works quite well, too. Will that do what you need ?


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