[H-GEN] creating pdf documents
Sarah Hollings
sysadmin at humanfactors.uq.edu.au
Fri Dec 6 00:05:36 EST 2002
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:33, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:01:45AM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> > The pdf "printer" would be configured as a postscript printer on
> > the windows side, and the linux box would convert the postscript
> > into pdf using ps2pdf as the backend. That is:
> >
> > word (or any other) document
> > -> postscript driver
> > -> samba pdf printer
>
> I've made something similair for the FAX server here and want to
> warn you, not all postscript to something converters like it when
> you send them postscript in PCL. So take a pure postscript driver
> like the Apple 16/1600 and not the HP LaserJet 4/PS if you experience
> these problems.
If you use the "HP Laserjet 4Si/4SiMX PS 600" you can get colour PDF's - of
course if you "print" using a driver that only does monochrome, that's what
you get in your PDF's. Other issues are font and character
replacement/matching.
ps2pdf and the pdflib library could be components.
>
> Edwin
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