Re: tn5250 printer emulation

[Michael Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 Brian.Burton@nlynx.com wrote:

> 
> 
> The one thing that struck me about the current tn5250 printer emulation was 
>that
> it relies on a SCS to ASCII translator.  This is a bit unreliable considering
> the page-layout nature of SCS (minimal that it is).  What we really need is a
> SCS->Postscript translation.  Then use Ghostscript to do conversions for PCL 
>or
> Epson printers.
> IMHO, of course.
> Brian

If you use host print transform, then all scs2ascii does is remove any
residual SCS codes.  The AS/400 will put the proper PCL and EPSON codes in
for you.

Of course, this may not be ideal, as it puts an extra load on the AS/400
to do the conversion.  I am currently working on an SCS -> PDF
filter.  After that is done (if noone else beats me to it) I'll take a
look at doing a SCS -> Postscript filter.

Mike Madore

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