RE: IPDS to PCL

[Lance Gillespie <LGillespie@xxxxxxxx>]

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