On 12-Feb-2003/15:37 +0800, Kevin - KD Micro Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm looking for a command line text based utility that can print PDF >files. I know the cups print system does this, but it would be a lot >easier if there was a command line tool that could do this for me under >the standard lpd.
#!/bin/sh # # Print the PDF file named on the command line. # # Copyright (c) 2003, Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # License: GNU GPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> # # Get the process ID and name of the script to generate a unique # name for the tempfile. pid=$$ scriptname=`basename $0` tempfile="/tmp/$scriptname.$pid.ps" # Make sure a readable PDF file was named on the command line. pdffile="$1" if [ -r "$pdffile" ]; then # A readable file was named. See if it's PDF. pdfstring=': PDF document, version ' ispdf=`file "$pdffile" | grep -c "$pdfstring"` if [ $ispdf -eq 0 ]; then echo "$pdffile is not a PDF file" exit 2 fi else echo "$scriptname Error: Unable to read PDF file: $pdffile" exit 1 fi # Convert PDF to PostScript. pdftops "$pdffile" "$tempfile" # Print and remove the tempfile. lpr "$tempfile" rm "$tempfile" -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
