Re: Printing PDFs to iSeries Printers

[Magne Kofoed <magne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

I tried your print pdf solution, but could not get it to work 
properly. The printer only prints the pdf ascii stream (%PDF-
1.3........).  
Must we first convert the pdf file to a ascii stream that the 
printer understands (e.g. PostScript)? or maybe it's possible 
to get the printer to understand a PDF ascii stream?

Regards,
Magne

Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 15:59:21 -0600
From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Add To 
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Subject: Re: Printing PDFs to iSeries Printers 
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Jim, 

You set up the print device as *USERASCII and then copy 
the .pdf file 
to the printer file. One way is to use FTP. 

ftp mysys 
bin 
namefmt 1 
put /ifsdir/file.pdf /qsys.lib/somelib.lib/printf.file 

There are several very easy to use FTP packages that you can 
run with 
Java like Jakarta Commons Net. If you need help with an FTP 
package let 
me know -- I have quite a few examples. 

If the printer is attached to your network, you can also 
print to it by 
IP number. You have to be on a 1.4 JDK or use something like 
JLPR (I can 
get you more information on that if necessary). 

--David