Re: Printing PDF on iseries outq

One more option if you're open to 3rd party is using the Google Cloud Print
addon for our GreenTools For Google Apps (G4G) applcation.
www.bvstools.com/g4g.html.

What this allows you to do is print to virtually any printer set up for
Google Cloud Print directly from your IBM i command line or ILE program.

Contact me for more info if you're interested.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Erwin Donker <erwin.donker@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi,

Last week I was asked to have pdf documents that are stored on IFS printed
from a job on the iseries. After doing some research, I found two possible
solutions:

1. Using the command PRTSTMF, made by Scott Klement
2. Using QSH:
cat -c /pdf/test.pdf | Rfile -wbQ -c "OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT)
DEVTYPE(*USERASCII) OUTQ(MYOUTQ)" -C "DLTOVR FILE(QSYSPRT)" QSYSPRT

Option 1 works perfect (thanks Scott!). It generates a spoolfile on the
specified outq and the document gets printed as it should.

Option 2 (that should basically do the same IMO) also generates a
spoolfile on the specified outq, but when send to the printer results in
more than 100 pages with strange characters.

Even though I have decided to implement PRTSTMF in my application, I am
still curious as to why option 2 doesn't work for me. The only thing I can
think of is that somehow QSH converts the original data using my job's
CCSID. FYI: the original document is CCSID 437, my job has 37. But why
doesn't the same problem occur when using Scott's RPG code? I tried
changing the CCSID of my job to 437 but that is not allowed for interactive
jobs (and that makes sense).

Like I said, I have already chosen to use PRTSTMF, but I would really like
to understand WHY the other option doesn't work. So basically my 2
questions are:

1. Why does RPG-code create a different spoolfile than the commands in QSH?
2. What am I doing wrong in the QSH option? I have read on the net that
other people have used this option succesfully...

Thanks in advance for your suggestions / answers.

Regards,

Erwin Donker



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