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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-03-03 kl. 02:29, skrev 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
> 
> 
>>
> 

OK. This is not an issue anymore.
Thank for your helpfull comments.