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ASCII to PDF converter
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| Print Dude 2005-04-20, 8:48 pm |
| Does anyone know of an opensource ASCII to PDF converter that can be
run on a print spool in the form of a filter so that it can be sent to
an Output Managment database?
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| Bev A. Kupf 2005-04-21, 2:54 am |
| On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:16:57 GMT,
Print Dude (printdude1968@gmail.com) wrote:
> Does anyone know of an opensource ASCII to PDF converter that can be
> run on a print spool in the form of a filter so that it can be sent to
> an Output Managment database?
Ghostscript - it can create PDF output, and be used as a print filter.
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| Lew Pitcher 2005-04-21, 2:54 am |
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Print Dude wrote:
> Does anyone know of an opensource ASCII to PDF converter that can be
> run on a print spool in the form of a filter so that it can be sent to
> an Output Managment database?
You should easily be able to build a print filter script that takes stdin and
pipes it through a2ps or enscript to build postscript from the ascii source.
Pipe the results through ps2pdf to build a pdf, and take the resulting file
and feed it into your output management database.
Something like
a2ps -o - | ps2pdf - targetfile.pdf
or
enscript -o - | ps2pdf - targetfile.pdf
followed by the logic to move targetfile.pdf to the OM database
If your OM db loader can read pdf's from stdin, then you can do this all in
one pipeline. Something like
a2ps -o - | ps2pdf - - | loadOMdatabase
or
enscript -o - | ps2pdf - - | loadOMdatabase
See a2ps(1), enscript(1), and ps2pdf(1)
If you don't have these tools, you can get them easily
a2ps is a GNU application with the application homepage
at http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
enscript is a GNU application with it's homepage
at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/
ps2pdf is part of the Ghostscript postscript interpreter package.
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Lew Pitcher
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| Dave Hinz 2005-04-21, 5:59 pm |
| On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:16:57 GMT, Print Dude <printdude1968@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of an opensource ASCII to PDF converter that can be
> run on a print spool in the form of a filter so that it can be sent to
> an Output Managment database?
txt2pdf (or text2pdf) - text to PDF is pretty simple. Google for those
program names & take your pick.
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