RE: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

I hit Enter too early
Thanks for your reply Scott
Is there anything that you can recommend?

Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:24 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: Linda Buonasera; Vito Taverna
Subject: RE: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

Thanks for your reply Scott

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
‘If you're going through hell, keep going.’
Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 1:33 PM
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Cc: Linda Buonasera; Vito Taverna
Subject: Re: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

Alan,

With regard to printers that directly support PDF... this can sometimes
be a good solution. But, I have found that the version of PDF
supported by most printers is really out of date, for example, the printer may support PDF 4.0, while Adobe is currently supporting
versions like 11... so if any newer features are in the PDF, this can
sometimes be a problem.

Honestly, the PRTSTMF utility that so many people have posted/recommended was something I threw together in about 15 minutes one day, and I personally only used it to print PostScript (not PDF) documents.

In theory, it should work fine if your printer's PDF support is adequate... and a lot of people have expressed appreciation for this tool. But, I think it's only fair to point out that it's not perfect.

The way the vast majority of the world prints PDFs is by using the Adobe Reader software, which isn't available for IBM i. There are some open source PDF readers that can be made to run in PASE, however.

Not sure if any of that is helpful :-)


On 12/31/2014 11:07 AM, Alan Shore wrote:

Thanks Scott

Alan Shore
E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx
Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
‘If you're going through hell, keep going.’
Winston Churchill

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Scott Mildenberger
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:05 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

According to the manual http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmisc/vac/us/product_pdfs/3558793.pdf these support direct PDF printing. You might try to connect with an FTP client and sending a PDF to them and see what happens.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
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Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:54 AM
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Subject: RE: Printing pdf data from teh AS/400

I have been told the following

Alan, I believe they ARE HP4015 printers , and connect via tcp, Alan Shore E-mail : ASHORE@xxxxxxxx Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019 Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640 ‘If you're going through hell, keep going.’
Winston Churchill

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