[Info-vax] Direct print of PDF files on PDF compatible printers.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-02 kl. 16:27, skrev chris:
> On 03/02/22 15:21, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-03-02 kl. 16:08, skrev chris:
>>> On 03/01/22 23:05, gah4 wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 9:16:42 AM UTC-8, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Some of the Xerox laser printer models support direct print of PDF
>>>>> files.
>>>>> Now, we uses DCPS för most of our printing needs. So, should I look for
>>>>> a way to setup a DCPS queue that will be transparent and just let the
>>>>> PDF file through (DCPS itself dosn't support PDF input)? Or is it
>>>>> simpler to just setup a queue using the telnetsym, lpd_smb or such?
>>>>
>>>> As well as I know it, PDF is a subset of PS.
>>>>
>>>> Enough of a subset that there is an automated process to convert
>>>> PDF into PS, and the program pdftops to do it.
>>>>
>>>> Are there printers that support PDF, but not PS?
>>>
>>> One thing that might solve the problem long term would be to port
>>> cups. Pretty foolproof and works out of the box on all the systems
>>> and os's tried here. Just about every printer model supported as well.
>>>
>>> You could argue that it's not the os's task to process pdf or any
>>> other format, other than transparently passing the data. Pdf should be
>>> handled by the pdf reader itself, as with most systems these days...
>>
>> What "PDF reader"? Are you talking about the/a printer?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
> 
> The reader is an application, either the free acrobat from Adobe, or in
> use here, the Foxit reader, also free. They do paid for apps that
> will edit exiting pdf files. Found that very useful where a pdf based
> form is to be filled in. Similar utils exist for unix, linux etc. The
> formatting for the printer is done within the app, and just talks to
> the printer via the os printer driver...
> 
> Chris
> 

What has that to do with getting a PDF file out on a printer from a
batch routine on an OpenVMS system?

Why do you think that I do not know what an *normal* PDF reader is?