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Re: Converting PDF to PCL successful

Yeah, that's what I believe - I have to put that PCL into a *USERASCII spooled file, then it should just work.

I'll know more sometime tomorrow, methinks!

Cheers
Vern

On 8/16/2016 9:21 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
Interesting development! So if that raw PCL is put in a printer device queue would it print for real?

Mike Cunningham

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:01 PM
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Subject: Converting PDF to PCL successful

Hi all

Just succeeded in converting a PDF file to raw PCL on the IBM i. I used a most recent version of Ghostscript.

Basically it "prints" the PDF using a driver that GS has - the following command does the work:

/QOpenSys/opt/freeware/bin/gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=some-pcl.pcl /home/USRDP2/some-pdf.pdf

This is VERRRRY cool!

The driver is for LaserJet 4 - there are other drivers that would also probably work.

Whoopee!!
Vern
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