[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Dirk Munk]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-05-18 13:35, Dirk Munk wrote:
>
>> Postscript and PDF are closely related. Do i guess the most natural
>> thing would be to add PDF file generation to the DCPS product suite.
>
> print queues defer storage of files to the printer. (genereally,
> contents stored on something called paper :-).
>
> if the print queue is to generate PDFs , then there needs to be a
> mechanism to also store those files somewhere on a disk.  Perhaps
> instead of specifying a device (serial, LAT, IP connected printer), the
> print queue could be setup on a directory, and dump the PDFs there.
>
> Then , the file name within that directory starts to matter. By job name
> ? job number ?
>
>
> First file of job wouldn't be good since repetitive prints may specify
> the same prologue file as the first file and then the variable content
> in subsequent files.
>

The functionality that I mean is the ASCII > Postscript conversion, that 
could be easily adapted for a ASCII > PDF conversion. That part of DCPS 
shouldn't have to output to a printer, it could also produce files.