Re: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

Alan,

The key is, can your printers natively understand PDF? If they are
somewhat recent, the answer is probably yes.

In that case, all you seend to do is send the file to the printer.
- via FTP (assuming your printer has an FTP server)
- via the spooling subsystem using Scott's PRTSTMF or some other method of
copying the data to a *USERASCII printer (spool) file.

As Bryan mentions, this has come up before, check the archives.

Charles


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi everyone
Hope you had a really merry Christmas, and hope you have a really great
New Year
Before I forget - because I generally do, we are on V5r4

We are in the process of using a new courier, and part of that process is
to receive data from the courier, via web services, decode it from Base64
and unzip the data
We seem to have this working
The end result is that we have 2 sets of data
One is for labels - which we have printed, and the second is pdf files
I have searched the internet on how to print pdf files from the AS/400 -
with no success
I have been told that it's the printers we are printing to
I have also been told that we need to load some software onto the AS/400
to convert FROM pdf to some other format

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Do we need new printers? If so - which type?
Do we need software? If so - what?

I can (hopefully) answer any questions that needs to be asked


Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
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