Re: tn5250 printer emulation

Don't know if this will help you or not, but the "convert" program included in
ImageMagick seems to convert between PS and PDF (as well as many other image 
formats)
and will convert from raw TEXT files.

Michael Madore wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 Brian.Burton@nlynx.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The one thing that struck me about the current tn5250 printer emulation was 
>that
> > it relies on a SCS to ASCII translator.  This is a bit unreliable 
>considering
> > the page-layout nature of SCS (minimal that it is).  What we really need is 
>a
> > SCS->Postscript translation.  Then use Ghostscript to do conversions for 
>PCL or
> > Epson printers.
> > IMHO, of course.
> > Brian
>
> If you use host print transform, then all scs2ascii does is remove any
> residual SCS codes.  The AS/400 will put the proper PCL and EPSON codes in
> for you.
>
> Of course, this may not be ideal, as it puts an extra load on the AS/400
> to do the conversion.  I am currently working on an SCS -> PDF
> filter.  After that is done (if noone else beats me to it) I'll take a
> look at doing a SCS -> Postscript filter.
>
> Mike Madore

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