[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

hancockrl59 at gmail.com skrev den 2015-05-18 20:21:
> 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!
>

I have already given you one.
I will not repeat that...