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

[chris]

On 03/02/22 15:32, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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
>>
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> What has that to do with getting a PDF file out on a printer from a
> batch routine on an OpenVMS system?
 >

I just assume that vms would have the sort of common sense utilities
that most of the mainstream world has taken for granted for decades
now, but perhaps i'm wrong.

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

Well, you did ask the question as to what I meant, so I explained it
to you, I'm sorry if you don't like the answer and not casting
aspersions, but angry mode doesn't solve anything...

Chris

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