[Info-vax] printing from VMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-03-01 kl. 14:16, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2021-03-01, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>
>> I also have a black-and-white |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| laser printer from about
>> 1990 or so.  I don't know if it is worth it to try to get it set up
>> (I've never used it).
>>
> 
> Have you used Ghostscript on VMS ?
> 
> [Disclaimer: I do not know the current situation with Ghostscript on VMS.]
> 
> If it's not too much effort, it might be worth trying to use Ghostscript
> to convert the PDF into something the printer could understand and see
> what the results are like.
> 
> In addition, you could try using the Ghostscript pdf2ps utility to
> convert your PDF document to Postscript. Some Linux documentation
> is here:
> 
> https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdf2ps
> 
> Simon.
> 

Or put the PDF files in a directly, mapped throught a web browser, and
pick them up from any modern client environment and print from there.

It is not worth the trouble to strugle with VMS printout here, in
particular in a home/hobbyist environment.