RE: IPDS to PCL

When I do that, the GDDM system calls fail and the program halts.
The print file has to be defined as *IPDS, not *AFPDS and the device
type has to be *IPDS as well.

Thanks,
lance



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 10:00 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IPDS to PCL

IPDS spool file? or AFPDS spool file?

Everything that I've ever seen works with AFPDS spool files, but not IPDS ones.

However, as IPDS is basically a subset of AFPDS, it's a usually simple matter of changing the printer file from DEVTYPE(*IPDS) to DEVTYPE(*AFPDS).

HTH,
CHarles


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Lance Gillespie <LGillespie@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

We've got an elaborate application that prints graphs and charts using
GDDM calls to IPDS. New printers that support IPDS are getting scarce
and have always been expensive.

Before we spend a bunch more on hardware, is there software that will
take an IPDS spool file and turn it into something that can print to
an HP printer, just using CL?

I would be willing to entertain IPDS-->PDF-->E-mail-->User as well.

Thanks
lance