Question about using QImgCvtImg to convert from PDF to PCL

Hi

I'm working on changing how we use images in some of our printing. I'm at a stage of replacing PAGSEGs with PNGs.

Now PNGs are not supported in AFP transforms on IBM i, although AFP, in general, knows about them - component ID 65.

So I will first be converting like this -

1. Convert PNG to GIF
2. Use GIF in AFPRSC (component ID 22 - thanks, Michael Schutte)
3. CPYSPLF *TOSTMF *PDF
4. Call QImgCvtImg to convert PDF to *USERASCII spooled file containing PCL

OK, so that works when printing to an HP LaserJet 600 M603 (which has native PDF printing, I believe)

We also need to fax - yes, don't ask - and we use FastFax - they have a way to send PCL-content as a fax, so I set that up.

The fax I got goes to a Konica BizHub C452.

What I got was 32 pages - should have been 3, including the cover page. And this 32 pages was reported in a FastFax interface.

It printed at the Konica - with a line or 2 of byies - you know, what you get when the printer and your data stream don't match.

The first thing on the first page I saw was "PDF' - which makes me wonder, and here's my question -

Does QImgCvtImg simply wrap the PDF code inside some PCL codes when it converts?

Just asking to see if anyone here might have seen this - I'll be calling Quadrant and IBM, later today.

Thanks, y'all
Vern