Re: PDF to spool file.

What type of printer wouldn't print PDF?  Or are you
referring to printing PDFs from the AS/400 directly to an
IBM printer or something?

I would think it would be fairly painless to buy a cheapo
laser/inkjet and put it on the network as well as the PDFs,
thus "mimicking" an outq and attached printer.

I could be misunderstanding, though.  :)

Brad

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:53:36 -0400
 "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Brad,
> 
>  I recently ran into a situation that would have save the
> client a lot of 
> money and time had they been easily able to do that.  PDF
> is a fairly common format.  They have thousands of PDF
> documents that their users and clients can view, email or
> print on demand.
> 
>  But shortly after they are first generated (on an
> overnight or weekend 
> run) they need to be printed (for legal reasons.)  There
> are a limited number of printers that print PDF directly,
> so they had to buy a printer dedicated to the task,
> although they already had high speed printers (albeit
> ones that didn't print PDFs.)  The alternative was to run
> it through a Windows driver attached printer.  Neither
> solution was ideal.  Having the ability to flip it to
> *IPDS would have been great.
> 
>  -mark
> 
> 
> At 7/14/05 12:10 PM, you wrote:
> >I'd be curious as to why you'd want to do this? :)
> >
> >Brad
> >
> >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:00:45 -0500
> > Edith Lueke <lueke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> There are a lot of posts on changing spool files to
> PDF.
> >>  How about the
> >> reverse?  Is that possible?
> >> ********************
> >>
> >> Edith Lueke
> >> User-Centered Design Team, iSeries
> >> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~lueke
> >> email:  lueke@xxxxxxxxxx
> >> http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/ucd
> >> 507-253-4908        Tie:  8-553-4908
> >>
> >> Few things can help an individual more than to place
> >> responsibility on him,
> >> and to let him know that you trust him.  -- Booker T.
> >> Washington
> 
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