[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <m8a13c-mv.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> On 2015-05-21, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> There's also XPDF which I found useful when I had a real Alpha.
 
XPDF displays PDFs on an X display.  It does not generate them.
Come to think of it, the last time I used it it didn't display them
all that well either.  :-)

bill 

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