kenwalters
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Does anyone know if there is a product that can take a report sent to a virtual printer and convert it to a .PDF file that can then be FTP'd off of the server? This would be for a 5.3 system.
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Printing to a file question.
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I can tell you how to do it for free in two steps.
If you output an ascii (text) file then you can use the enscript command (probably already on your systems, but can be downloaded free if not) to convert it to a (postscript) .ps file. Or, you can "print" directly to a compatbile virtual postscript (ps) printer (file).
From there you can use pstill ( to convert the .ps file to a .pdf file.
We do this all the time and it works great!
If you output an ascii (text) file then you can use the enscript command (probably already on your systems, but can be downloaded free if not) to convert it to a (postscript) .ps file. Or, you can "print" directly to a compatbile virtual postscript (ps) printer (file).
From there you can use pstill ( to convert the .ps file to a .pdf file.
We do this all the time and it works great!
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kenwalters
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Thank you for the response. I can bring up man pages on enscript, but when I try to run the command, I'm told there are files missing. It looks like I'll have to download enscript.
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