Re: Print/fax PDF on Iseries

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I beleive any fax server (on any platform) faxing pdf is converting the
format.
I would check the Infoprint Redbook, or Printing VI or later redbook to
convert
pdf to afp.
jim
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Subject: Re: Print/fax PDF on Iseries


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> I really don't want to have to involve the PC in any way if I can help it.
> Is there not other way to spool a file onto an AS400 printer..  Maybe a
> Java program running on the machine or something...
> also, I don't see a print to fax driver in client access
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> One perverted way is to have a client PC.  Install the print-to-fax driver
> from iSeries Access.  Then RUNRMTCMD to that PC and have it print to it.
> Might take some fine tuning to bypass the print-to-fax prompt screen.
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> I am creating system to e-mail and fax certain document outside the
> company.   I have the e-mail peice completed but have run into a road
> block
> on the faxing peice.
> The problem I am having is that on occasion the users needs to be able to
> bundle associated documents, not created on the iseries, with the fax. the
> manual process is that they stand in front of the fax machine with a bunch
> of paper and fax it.    With the automated faxing they want to be able to
> specify certain documents on the IFS and bundle those with the FAX.
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> How does one take a PDF and FAX it with Fax/400,  I also have infoprint
> server on the machine and have seen that we can transform from PDF to AFP
> I
> just can't figure out how to make the transform happen.   No one here is
> very familiar with either fax/400 or or infoprint...
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> J. Scott Carter
> Programmer/Analyst
> e-mail: Mailto:scarter@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Phone: 214.583.0348
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> "When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully  in her
> sleep.
> Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."
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