Published June 1st, 2004 by Jim O'Halloran
Creating a PDF printer with Samba and Ghostscript
An excellent Lionux Gazette article on creating a PDF printer service with Samba.
PDF documents provide a great way to pass around documents on the Internet. They have many uses, such as sending quotes and invoices to business clients. Two of the main reasons the PDF format is so popular is that it preserves all of the document’s formatting exactly and it is easily viewable on almost all platforms. For many computer users stuck in the Windows paradigm, creating PDF documents means forking over precious cash to the folks at Adobe. However, this article will show you how to use Linux, Samba, and Ghostscript to provide a PDF creation service to both Windows and Linux users. Of course, all of this can be obtained for free.
I had a few little permissions issues to make this work, but it was all pretty easy in the end. The other thing I did was to usea colour laserjet driver rather than a black and white one so that I can create colour PDF’s as well as monochrome.