[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Paul Anderson skrev den 2015-05-18 15:13:
> On 2015-05-18 12:48:49 +0000, hancockrl59 at gmail.com said:
>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to print directly to pdf via an
>> OpenVMS print queue?
>
> This has been on our wishlist for a while.
>
> Some printers can accept PDF files directly.  HP has some models that do
> this.  I don't know about other printer vendors.
>
> Other than that, since your printer probably understands PostScript files,
> you could use the Ghostscript pdf2ps capability.  Sending a PDF file
> through that would be a process outside of the PRINT command or an OpenVMS
> print queue.
>
> I would love for DCPS to handle PDF files, but such an effort is not yet on
> the drawing board.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Anderson
> VMS Software, Inc.
>

Paul, I think that you got it backwards... :-)

He wants to *create* PDF files, not to *print* them. :-)

Jan-Erik.