Re: [LINUX5250] scs2pdf thoughts

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this method works happily under lp5250d as well.   If anyone is
interested in using lp5250d instead of lpr/lpd (I like lp5250d better)

Here's the .tn5250rc file I used:

pdf {
        host = as400
        env.DEVNAME=PDF
        env.IBMMSGQNAME=DSP08
        env.IBMMSGQLIB=*LIBL
        outputcommand=scs2ascii|enscript --no-header -p- -q -fCourier-Bold@4/8 
| ps2pdf - /home/klemscot/lp5250d-pdf-$$.pdf
}

(That outputcommand is all one line, in case your mail client wraps it)

It's not nearly as fast as James' version, but it works well as is
searchable...



On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Frank Richter wrote:
>
> I seriously doubt that ghostscript produces non-searchable PDFs all the
> time. I use HPT with lpr from out AS-400 (V4R3, also tested with V3R7)
> and ghostscript 6.50.
>
> The output is quite good and *searchable*.
>
> My filter actually looks like this:
>
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> OUTFILE=/var/tmp/as400topdf-`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`-$$
> recode -f ibmpc..l1 | \
> enscript --no-header -p- -q -fCourier-Bold@6.6/9.4 > $OUTFILE.ps
> ps2pdf $OUTFILE.ps $OUTFILE.pdf
>
> # TODO: we should get the userid sending the job and not make
> # everything world readable.
> chmod 644 $OUTFILE.pdf
>
> rm $OUTFILE.ps
> ----
>
> The AS-400 OUTQ uses WSCST QSYS/QWPDEFAULT in order to get a simple
> ascii output without any ESC-sequences for various printer models.
>