Re: PDF to AFPDS using Infoprint server and AFPDS to PCL using HPT

Let's role play your scenario:

Developer: "Ah, boss we have to buy all new PDF capable printers to print these labels. We'll need to throw out all the zebra label printers."

Boss: "WTF ? "

Another scenario using Automate or any other free or commercial Windows process automation toolset:

Developer: "Since we have a Windows server available let's place all PDFs in a folder and then just do a simple automated render of each file to PCL using a Windows driver to our driver of choice and put them back into the IBM i as an IFS file or spool file. You pick. "

Boss: "Way to go developer. You're thinking about all the resources we have available to us, not just the IBM i. My friend Nathan was telling me I needed new PDF printers or I might have to try to compile some open source stuff in PASE. Isn't that a picante sauce ?"

Choose simple and effective:
http://www.helpsystems.com/automate

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message: 4
date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:08:53 -0700
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: PDF to AFPDS using Infoprint server and AFPDS to PCL
using HPT

You need a printer that will ingest and render a raw PDF file for this.

That's a problem? Shop PDF capable printers on Amazon.

Otherwise you have the equivalent of trying to shove a square peg into a
round hole :-)

Funny, that's basically what I was thinking about the idea using
server-based software to transform PDF to AFPDS to PCL. Particularly if you
need to license a package for it. Especially if you have to route the files
to a Windows server.