[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-05-18 23:19:
> On 2015-05-18 20:31:44 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-05-18 15:39:
>>> On 2015-05-18 12:48:49 +0000, hancockrl59 at gmail.com said:
>>>
>>>> We are trying to eliminate printing/scanning in several areas of our
>>>> company.
>>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to print directly to pdf via an
>>>> OpenVMS print queue?
>>>
>>> OpenVMS barely supports Postscript, much less PDF.
>>
>> VMS certenly supports PDF creation, with the right tools installed.
>
> By that definition, OpenVMS also supports the SpaceX Falcon 9 option for
> orbital processing, too.

Do you have a link to the tool for VMS for that?
If you do, then yes it fits the definition.
If you don't, you have to explain a little more.

>
>> VMS doesn't support any 3G programming language either, without the right
>> tools (compilers) installed...
>
> Which is one of (many!) problems with OpenVMS, of course.

And how many "other systems" comes with anything more then a C compiler?

>
> Other systems do have native support for reading and writing of PDF
> formats, and without having add-on tools.

One can also say that the add-on tools are in the base distro.

>
> Basically, your view of OpenVMS and mine are very different.
>

Agree! I'm very practical oriented. I rather do something for
the users then whine about, well, almost everything.

If my users says "we want to create PDF files", I say "fine,
there are tools for that, no problem. I'll fix your PDFs!".