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Hack 47 Print Over the Internet

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Print via HTTP by submitting your print streams as HTML form data.

Printing over the Internet brings the way people like to read and write to the way we plumb information in the 21st century. The idea is to enable authors to create documents using their favorite editor and then print it to a web site. Once on the web server, the PostScript print stream can be converted to PDF and posted online for reading or downloading. In this scenario, the author controls the source document and is responsible for maintenance.

This hack uses HTTP file submission to transfer PostScript to a web server. A more formal solution would use CUPS (http://www.cups.org). For a CUPS-based PDF creation server, try Alambic (http://alambic.iroise.net). Alambic supports HTTP and SMTP interfaces.


This hack demonstrates how to "print" a PostScript print stream to a web server. In our examples, we won't be printing to an elaborate document hosting service. Instead, we will print to the simple http://www.ps2pdf.com web site.

Currently, http://www.ps2pdf.com uses an old version of Ghostscript, so printing to your own, local version of Ghostscript will yield a better PDF.


4.17.1 Download and Install

Visit http://www.pdfhacks.com/submit_file/ and download submit_file-1.0.zip. Unzip this archive, and then copy SubmitFile.exe to a convenient location. This is a simple program that uses the Windows WinInet API to submit a local file to a web server. It then opens the default web browser to view the server's response. The source code is available and you should consult it for HTTP submission details.

4.17.2 Install a ps2pdf.com Printer

The procedure for creating an Internet printer is the same as the procedure for creating the PDF printer in [Hack #39], except you don't need to install Ghostscript. The configuration is also a little different.

Follow the Print to PDF instructions, except:

  1. You don't need to install Ghostscript.

  2. Name the new printer ps2pdf.com Printer instead of GS Pdf Printer.

  3. Name the new Redirected Port RPTWEB: instead of RPTPDF:.

  4. When configuring this new Redirected Port, use the settings in Table 4-11.

    Table 4-11. RedMon port properties

    Field

    Value

    Redirect this port to the program:

    		 
    

C:\redmon17\

RedRun.exe

    Arguments for this program are:

    		 
    

C:\pdfhacks\

SubmitFile.exe/convert/convert.cgiwww.ps2pdf.cominputfile%1

    Output:

    Program Handles Output

    Run:

    Minimized


  5. Name the Redirected Port log file C:\pdfhacks\web_printer.log instead of C:\gs\pdf_printer.log.

  6. Click OK to accept the new port settings.

  7. Click OK to accept the new printer settings and close the dialog.

The RedRun program takes the PostScript print stream and creates a temp file for it. RedRun then runs the program SubmitFile, replacing the %1 with the temp filename. Note that you should not put quotes around this %1, because RedRun seems to pad the temp filename with whitespace that disrupts the SubmitFile arguments.

You can run SubmitFile from the command line, which is useful for debugging. It takes arguments in order:

SubmitFile <cgi path> <cgi server name> \

<html form field name> <local filename of upload>

4.17.3 Test Your ps2pdf.com Printer

Open the ps2pdf.com Printer properties dialog, click the General tab, and click Print Test Page. When your PDF is ready for download from http://www.ps2pdf.com, a browser will open with a hyperlink to follow.

If an error occurs, check the log file for feedback from RedRun or SubmitFile.

Note that the previous configuration is tailored to the current state of http://www.ps2pdf.com. The site administrators might choose to alter it at any time, requiring you to change this printer's configuration.

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    Table of Contents
    Copyright
    Credits
    Preface
    Chapter 1. Consuming PDF
    Chapter 2. Managing a Collection
    Chapter 3. Authoring and Self-Publishing: Hacking Outside the PDF
    Chapter 4. Creating PDF and Other Editions
    Introduction: Hacks #32-50
    Hack 32 Create Interactive PDF with Your Word Processor
    Hack 33 Create a Printable, On-Screen Edition from Word
    Hack 34 Multipurpose PDF
    Hack 35 Create an HTML Edition from Your Word Processor
    Hack 36 Create a Handheld Edition from Your HTML
    Hack 37 Convert Documents from Tools You Don't Own to PDF
    Hack 38 Acrobat Distiller and Its Profiles
    Hack 39 Print to PDF with Ghostscript and RedMon on Windows
    Hack 40 Save As PDF with Mac OS X
    Hack 41 Maximize PDF Portability
    Hack 42 Configure Distiller and Ghostscript for Your Purpose
    Hack 43 Embed and Subset Fonts to Your Advantage
    Hack 44 Share a PDF Network Printer with Samba
    Hack 45 Print to Image and Other Rasterizing Options
    Hack 46 Print to SVG
    Hack 47 Print Over the Internet
    Hack 48 Create a PDF Album of Your Digital Pictures
    Hack 49 Print to Fax on Windows
    Hack 50 Convert Incoming Faxes to PDF on Linux
    Chapter 5. Manipulating PDF Files
    Chapter 6. Dynamic PDF
    Chapter 7. Scripting and Programming Acrobat
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