Silent pdf creation

Hello there,

Ive downloaded a free pdf converter but cannot seem to make it print
silently. Meaning, it always asks for a filename. I want to be able to
provide the
filename so i can use it in my Vlisp programming (on the command prompt).

Can anybody help me on this?

 

I have three different ones. But all without the posibility of unchecking a
filename.
Can you perhaps provide me yours?

MJ

 

The CutePDF and Pdf995 (free versions)

 

I tried several free PDF creators, but still cannot to make it print
silently. Meaning, NOT asking for a filename. I want to be able to
provide the filename with the print command so i can use it in my Vlisp
programming (on the command prompt).

MJ

 

Have you tried just plotting to a postscript file, to a particular
directory, and having something "watch" that directory? Like Acrobat or
GoBatchGS?
http://www.output.tmfweb.nl/
See "Ghostscript GUI".

Works pretty silently here.

 

I still haven't found what i'm looking for.

Also a good song by U2.

 

TRY THIS...
Use Ghostscript 8.14 PDF creator software.
(see download info below)
You can run it from your Vlisp Routine.
Prior to running Ghostscript, isolate your drawing name so that the name is assigned to a lisp variable that Ghostscript can use to create a PDF. This should allow you to provide the
filename so you can use it in your Vlisp routine.

Here's what I do:
I have my program set to read the drawing name -- the code looks something like this:

(setq dwg_name (getvar "dwgname")
pltname (substr dwg_name 1 (- (strlen dwg_name) 4)) ;;remove extension from dwg name -- use this in your Plot command line
DwgPfx (getvar "dwgprefix") ;c:\etc
PDFFILE (strcat DwgPfx pltname ".pdf") ;create PDF Filename
);setq
(setq GS_sheet1 (strcat DwgPfx pltname ".plt")) ; create Postscript file name

GHOSTSCRIPT DOWNLOAD:
Down load AFPL Ghostscript (PDF creator), gs814w32.exe,
from here:ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs814/
Or from here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ghostscript/gs700w32.exe?download
gs814w32.exe is a self extracting zip file. run it and install Ghostscript (Note: do not change the location of the Ghostscript file -- c:\gs\...)



GHOSTSCRIPT LISP CODE:
Here's the Code (Sub-Routine) you will need to convert your postscript to PDF using GhostScript. Note the Lisp variabales PDFFILE & GS_sheet1 are contained within the code below; They were taken from the code above. Also, in order for the code below to work as shown, make sure to use the "pltname" variable as the filename inside your PLOT command line of code when you create your Postscript file -- if you do not, the resulting Postscript file name willnot match the file name within the GS_sheet1 variable. Thus, the code below will not work as shown):

(defun make_PDF ()
(setq GSEXE "C:\\gs\\gs8.14\\bin\\gswin32c.exe")
;;--------------------------------------------
;;Multi sheet Set Ghostscript switches:
;;-------------------------------------------
(setq GSARGS (strcat
" -sDEVICE=pdfwrite"
" -q"
" -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress"
" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3"
" -dNOPAUSE"
" -dBATCH"
" -sOutputFile=" PDFFILE
" -c .setpdfwrite"
" -f " GS_sheet1
));setq
;;----------------------
;;Run Ghostscript:
;;----------------------
(startapp GSEXE GSARGS)

(princ)
);end Make_pdf

Hope this helps.
I use something like the above every day.
With a simple, single click of an assigned toolbar button, I can spit out both single & multi-page PDF till the cows come home and the cool part is that all the software is free!

Regards
J. Steed

 

A little late response but...

Thanx for your code. I'm working on it but with no luck so far.
What i get when i use the code is verry shortly a minimized dosscreen on the
windows-toobar, wich is okay, but i dont see the file yet. The result of the
routine is 33.

is assigned to a lisp variable that Ghostscript can use to create a PDF.
This should allow you to provide the

extension from dwg name -- use this in your Plot command line

(Note: do not change the location of the Ghostscript file -- c:\gs\...)

PDF using GhostScript. Note the Lisp variabales PDFFILE & GS_sheet1 are
contained within the code below; They were taken from the code above. Also,
in order for the code below to work as shown, make sure to use the "pltname"
variable as the filename inside your PLOT command line of code when you
create your Postscript file -- if you do not, the resulting Postscript file
name willnot match the file name within the GS_sheet1 variable. Thus, the
code below will not work as shown):

both single & multi-page PDF till the cows come home and the cool part is
that all the software is free!