Panama Red <complaintdepartment2002 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in news:5q4uq2-
pk9.ln1 (AT) ralph (DOT) homelinux.net:

If you are still having problems, here is a small shell script that we
wrote to take UniVerse printing output and merge it into a pdf file with
a pre-generated pdf invoice masking. We set up a virtual printer in
UniVerse and call this script as the printer driver. You will need to
have pdf toolkit installed on the Linux machine.


cat - |lp -c -d lp99
# lp99 is a virtual Linux postscript printer that we have setup to write
to
# file. It writes to /usr/spool/uv/pdfspool.ps
sleep 1
# we put a small delay in here so that the file has time to be created.
ps2pdf /usr/spool/uv/pdfspool.ps /usr/spool/uv/pdfout.pdf
# ps2pdf converts the postscript file to a pdf file
pdftk pdfout.pdf output art.pdf background NATINVOICE.pdf
# pdftk takes the pdf file and merges it with the pre-existing blank
# invoice -->NATINVOICE.pdf to a final file called art.pdf
/usr/bin/uuencode art.pdf invoice.pdf >inv.pdf
# uuencode encodes the art.pdf file to a binary called inv.pdf. When
# the end user receives it in his/her email it will be extracted as
# invoice.pdf
mail -s 'Invoice' email (AT) address (DOT) 1 email (AT) address (DOT) 2 <inv.pdf
# we use the mail command to send the file. Sendmail works as well.

I hope this helps,
Scott