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www.unixsucks.com:
VoidMain you are talking about implementation rather the task. I understand where you are going becouse in UNIX you have separate physical file in spool which you don't have in Windows (at least not in expected format). Again, it has nothing to with a task. If you need users documents to be converted to some other format then you write a program, designate directory, ask people to put files there and you are done.

voidmain:
And I'll give you the technical details of how I do it in Linux but basically the scenerio is to have what looks like a normal shared printer on your server, say using the color laserjet drivers.  However, when a user connects to this printer and sends a print job to it, instead of going down the hall to pick up their printed output the get an email from their Exchange server in Outlook containing an attachment which is a PDF file and happens to look exactly like would have printed out on paper.

You tell me how you're going to do that, then I will tell you how I would/do do it.

www.unixsucks.com:
I actually do it even without color printers etc. I would designate mailbox in Exchange, would run a script in Exchange on message arrival, would convert document and send it back.
It's not a theory, I already did it. I was receving Word documents from our supplier, I was stripping document, converting it to HTML and posting to web sites.

voidmain:
The PDF thing I am talking about is for Windows clients, not UNIX/Linux clients.  In my example I will make my server appear on the network as an NT Server, and a member of the NT domain.  The clients won't know that it's not an NT server. They just print to the shared printer and get a message back in outlook with a PDF attachment.  If I want to do this in Windows how would I do it?

Stryker:
Users get their GUI stuff, but you aren't talking about users you are talking about server perspectives. And an admin (at least a good one) does not need a gui system to work with. If that is why you are against linux then your a bigger idiot than i thought. And the print que thing, you honestly dont know what it is? There is no printer (well, not a lot) that can print 2000 things at once, they get printed in order from a que... Even a winblows person should know about this. I'm afraid you just lost all respect I ever had, and will no longer reply to your posts. Try http://windowsbbs.com and go worship there, this is a anti-windows place.

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