Topic: PDF printing

[Matt Thompson]

I post this with some embarasment... hopefully no one is still reading this thread!
The HP drivers do provide better on screen quality but the page layout gets lost. Cutting the end of pages etc...
Instead I tried the Apple LaserWriter 12/640 and 16/600 PS drivers, both worked well.
That is the quality was good and the page layout was correct.
Regards,
Matt

[Lasse Johansson]

Thanks for the suggestion!

The reason why I have NOT suggested using the "HP Color LaserJet PS" driver is that I cannot confirm that it is able to create "real" PDF's:

The problem here shows when you create a PDF containing two types of colour graphics:

Bit mapped colour graphics & vector based colour graphics

If you create such a PDF document (using Adobe FrameMaker for instance) you'll most probably end up with a very poor quality PDF if you use the "HP Color LaserJet PS" driver.

...Try it out, and respond...

_____
Lasse

[andrez]

i have installed this on sms 5.6
NO ERROR
BUT NO MAKE NOTHIG
i thik is a problem of samba 2.2.7-3
this is part of smb.conf


; Set up our PDF-creation print service
[pdf]
   path = /tmp
   printable = yes
   guest ok = yes
   print command = /usr/bin/printpdf %s
   
   ; There is no need to support listing or removing print jobs,
   ; since the server begins to process them as soon as they arrive.
   ; So, we set the lpq (list queued jobs) and lprm (remove jobs in queue)
   ; commands to be empty.
   lpq command =
   lprm command =

and this my /usr/bin/printpdf

#!/bin/sh
DATE=date +%b%d-%H%M%S
OUTDIR=/home/e-smith/files/ibays/pdfdrop/files
ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp
mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf
rm $1

i have install all ps2pdf work fine if i make a pdf from ps