[ale] File converter

james at sumners.ath.cx james at sumners.ath.cx
Thu Jul 1 13:00:53 EDT 2004


I forgot about this:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/cups-pdf

It prints to ~/cups-pdf/. Basically, you pick the pdf port when setting
up a new printer and use any print driver you want.

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:04:10PM -0400, Keith Morris - IQ wrote:
> I've never done this, but I did a quick search and apparently you can 
> print from openoffice from the command line with "oowriter -p 
> <filename>" and if you use -pt you can specify which printer. If you can 
> do this, could a script not be written that would print to a ps file 
> then converted to a pdf on a batch of files?  I'm not much of a 
> scripter, but seems possible.
> 
> see here:
> http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/tools/openofficeorg/batchprintopenofficeorg.htm
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> Steven A. DuChene wrote:

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