[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <555cf16c$0$41757$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 15-05-20 11:11, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
>> You are way out of reality with JS, callable HTML5 rendering...
> 
> 
> Man, am I ever happy to see that someone else is accused of living in a
> different Universe :-) Welcome to the club Hoff :-)

I have said for a long time that many people here in c.o.v seem to
live in an alternate reality.

> 
> In fairness to Hoff, when presented with a problem, it is a good
> exercise to look at a variety of ways to solve it. And Hoff has
> presented many ways.
> 
> With regards to Hoff and CDA:   VSI could brush up the API documentation
> and decide that this will be a strategic part of VMS and encourage
> people to write converters for their file formats.
> 
> Remember that Digital abandonned CDA and sold much of it to other
> companies. There is no incentive to write converters to an architecture
> that has been abandonned.
 
Just to get at elast a little on topic, what about Ghostscript?  There
seems to be a version for VMS and I know on Unix systems it provides
an interface for printing all kinds of stuff to a lot of different
printers and I am fairly certrain one of those printers is PDF in a file.

bill

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