FW: pdfdistiller - CUPS PDF

[Goffioul Michael]

Thanks. Forwarding to kde-print mailing list for further processing
(I retired as kdeprint developer). Cristian, Kurt, could you take care
of it?

Note: I stripped the PDF file and RPM package due to size limitation

Michael.

-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Schmidt [mailto:Axel.Schmidt at novell.com] 
Sent: Monday 10 July 2006 16:04
To: Goffioul Michael
Subject: Re: pdfdistiller - CUPS PDF

Hallo Michael,

attached please find my actual version of the pdf-writer I developed
during a POC for a SLED10 customization in June.

I have implemeted a user mode, that the PDF will reside at "/home/<user 
name>/PDF".  By default user mode is off and the PDFs are created at
"/export/share/pdf". Depending on the user mode the PDF file names
differ.

For easy installation  I created a pdf-writer rpm which will 
automatically install a CUPS-PDF printer, when the rpm is installed. The

rpm also provides the free Adobe Distiller ppd file.

I hope you like my adaptions, after I finally found out that the initial

pdfdistiller was made by you!

Any suggestions are welcome.

FYI: I am working for Novell Consulting in EMEA and I am originally from

SUSE, but I do not work for SUSE R&D.

Best Regards,

Axel


Goffioul Michael schrieb:
>> Hallo Michael,
>>
>> today I found by chance your pdfdistiller (CUPS backend) 
>> which you have published in 2001 under the terms of the GNU 
>> General Public License.
>>
>> Initially I was looking for a CUPS-PDF printer solution which 
>> creates PDF files from any Linux application, to be used with 
>> the SLED10 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10) and found a 
>> modified version of your script without GNU GPL notice
>> here:
>>
>> http://www.linux-als-server.de/html/special-pdfprinter.php
>>
>> I did my own customization on that script and have prepared a 
>> rpm and documentation for Linux Newbies. 
>>
>> I respect copyright and will add the GNU GPL notice and will 
>> note that the my script is based on 
>> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/printing/pdfdistiller - Copyright 
>> by Michael Goffioul, 2001.
>>
>> Would you agree with this approach?
>>     
>
> Hi Axel,
>
> As long as you respect the copyright, I'm fine with it. However, if
> you think your customization might be useful for other users, you
might
> think about backporting to the original script and make it available
> in standard KDE packages.
>
> Regards,
> Michael.
>
>   


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Axel Schmidt
Technical Specialist
Plattform Linux
Axel.Schmidt at novell.com
+49 179 127 6617

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