[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[hancockrl59 at gmail.com]

On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 2:09:13 PM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> Paul Anderson wrote:
> > On 2015-05-18 12:48:49 +0000, Randy 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.
> > 
> 
> The way I read the request, he doesn't want to print to paper, he wants 
> to use the queue to produce the PDF file.
> 
> I seem to recall some products that will produce PdF files on VMS, not 
> really sure.  Seems to me that if there are, he should forget the print 
> symboints and just change his procedures to use the products directly.

If there are other products (other than tkPDF) which will produce PDF files on VMS I would like to know more about them.
Thanks!