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

[chris]

On 03/02/22 23:56, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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.
>
>

So you just want it transparent to data ?. Must be a section in
the vms manual set covering that...

Chris


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