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message: 3
date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:47:14 -0500
from: "Jeff Elam" <jelam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: send system generated PDF to system I printer/out queue

I am creating PDF invoices/acknowledgements using overlays and saving
them to a network share. My next step is to email them to customers
using RPG mail >(I'm already using RPG mail for other scenarios so that
part I can
handle). Here is where I need help. If no email address exist on the
system for that customer I'd like to send that PDF to a network HP
printer connected via remote out queue. Once customer service has that
paper copy it will be >a reminder that the email addresses for that
customer needs to be entered.

I used the method discussed here:
http://www.mcpressonline.com/tips-techniques/document-management/techtip
-spooled-files-and-pdf-part-four.html

It only took a couple of hours to put together, has been working fine
for a couple of years now. I set up a series of OUTQs with DTAQs
attached that is monitored by a perpetually running daemon job that does
the HPT and PDF conversion into the IFS. There are a few gotchas
regarding HPT and *IPDS features like CHRSIZ, and of course creates
image based PDFs which aren't searchable and much larger than they could
be. (Yes, we know about InfoPrint...but no-one is willing to cut a
check.)

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