Re: Printing PDFs to iSeries Printers

Thanks for all the ideas everybody!!!

I am going to try the following:

- create a 'Printable' object that will print my cover sheet + my TIFF
images
- send this print job to an IP Printer

I'll let you know how it works out.  Too bad they don't support PDF in Java
print services yet!


Regards,
Jim McLean

java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/04/2005 05:48:00 AM:

> 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
> To: <java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> 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
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