[Info-vax] printing from VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-01, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> 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.

$ set response/mode=good_natured

It's Phillip asking the question Jan-Erik. :-)

Which option do you think _he_ is going to take ? :-)

(That doesn't change the fact that you are correct.)

Simon.

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