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Linux PDF printer driver

Here's something I've done in my linux-box ; so I have a printer named "pdf", and if I choose it, a pdf-file is created in my home-directory with a name based on the current date. Maybe you'll have to adapt it, and you must of course have a ghostcript version with the output-device pdfwrite available (try "gs --help | grep pdfwrite"). Most applications with a GUI give a menu where you can select the name of the printer.

  
new section in /etc/printcap/
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pdf:
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf:
        :mx#0:
        :sh:
        :lp=/dev/null:
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/pdf/filter:
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the input filter /var/spool/lpd/pdf/filter :


#!/bin/bash
# set > /tmp/print_env.txt #only for debugging
HOME="/home/$USER"
OUTPUT_FILE=$(date +%x-%X | tr / .).pdf
/usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4
    -sOutputFile="$HOME/$OUTPUT_FILE" -