[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) skrev den 2015-05-21 15:10:
> In article <cs60q8Fn1duU2 at mid.individual.net>,
> bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, ghostscript is the answer.  Works fine on VMS.
>

But needes PS input, which I do not think was available here.

I just put text2pdf on my 8.4 Alpha (one single .C file) and
it compiled and linked fine (after one little adjustment).

Got a PDF version of LOGIN.COM with:

$ cc text2pdf.c
$ link text2pdf
$ text2pdf :== $util:<text2pdf>text2pdf.exe
$ def/user sys$output login.pdf
$ text2pdf sys$login:login.com


$ d

Directory UTIL:<TEXT2PDF>

LOGIN.PDF;1           4  21-MAY-2015 15:19:50.47
TEXT2PDF.C;6         29  21-MAY-2015 15:18:11.82
TEXT2PDF.EXE;1       35  21-MAY-2015 15:18:20.91
TEXT2PDF.OBJ;4       70  21-MAY-2015 15:18:13.04

Mailed the PDF to myself and it displayes just fine
in Acrobat Reader.