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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-02 kl. 20:26, skrev Doug Phillips:
> On 3/2/2022 12:56 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-03-02 kl. 19:10, skrev Doug Phillips:
>>
>>> Since you have Windows involved anyway...
>>
>> I do not (for this specific need). This is only on OpenVMS.
>> I do not understand where you have got that from...
>>
>>
> 
> Sorry. Since you're creating PDFs...

Yes. Using OpenVMS, Python and the ReportLab module.

> then my guess...

Don't guess.

> was you have some non-VMS 
> systems but maybe not Windows. Just saying that there are Windows (and 
> maybe Apple and maybe *nix) apps that do file conversion, but that's not my 
> world.

And not my question.

> 
> If you need to print a form...

I would not call it a "form". It is a page having some simple
text and one barcode.

> with barcodes, then the easiest way is to use 
> the printer's barcode fonts.

Yes, if there are some. Most small printers does not have
any barcodes fonts.

> I haven't met a Xerox business-class laser...

*I* have not mentioned any "business-class" printer either.

> I think my first question was relevant:
> "Is your primary goal to print PDF's or to print barcodes?"

It is to print a page with some simple text and one barcode.

Be assured that I *do* know printing technologies in general.

My only question was if there was a simple way to put the DCPS
symbiont in some "pass-through" mode. Maybe not. But a simple
COPY to the TNA device obviously also works fine.