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I did not find a product that did it natively on the /400. Does anyone know of any?
Ghostscript is able to convert PDF to various printer formats. I don't know about AFP, but it can definitely do PostScript and PCL. Most printers today support one or the other.
Ghostscript is a Unix program that will run under PASE on the iSeries. You could then have a simple RPG program that reads the otuput and copies it to a *USERASCII spooled file to print it.
Also, the Linux versions of Acrobat Reader are capable of converting a PDF document to PostScript. The advantage of this approach is that Adobe's rendering of the PDF is the de-facto standard, so the PDFs look the way the user expects them to. Then, you can use Ghostscript to convert from PostScript to the printer's language, if necessary.
Unfortunately I haven't figured out a way to make Acrobat Reader run on the iSeries.
They solved the problem by throwing hardware at it - a brand new PDF capable Infoprint printer.
Hey, if you can afford it, that's a great solution.
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