Most of our printers accept PDF directly, so, I do something like the following code snippet, where $Open and $Read are the IFS APIs. There is a method that is more complicated where you can trick Inforprint Server using Transform Manger (if you own it) into rendering a PDF into a *AFPDS type object that can be interpreted by any printer. Setting that printer object up is a bit of a trick however because it requires an exit point program, and, probably beyond the scope of something I could help with on this forum.
callp QCMDEXC('OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT) '
+ 'DEVTYPE(*USERASCII) '
+ 'PAGESIZE(60 78) '
+ 'PAGRTT(0) REDUCE(*NONE) '
+ 'OUTQ('+%trim(OQ.LsrOutq)+') '
+ 'SECURE(*YES) '
:1024);
for idx1=1 to %int(PDS.Cpy);
// Print the PDF file from the IFS file
fd=$Open(ToFile:1);
open QSYSPRT;
if fd>=0;
dow ($Read(fd:%addr(PrtBuf):%size(PrtBuf))>0);
write QSYSPRT PrtBufDS;
reset PrtBuf;
enddo;
endif;
$Close(fd);
close QSYSPRT;
endfor;
endif;
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Hi Vernon, hi Patrick,
Thank you for your replies.
@Vernon: I thought just the printer file had to be *USERASCII, not the device description. Which *DEVD parameter are you thinking of?
@Patrick: yes, FTP was binary.
Also, after further digging into the issue I think those printers do not accept direct PDF which, on the contrary, I took for granted, though at least the Ricoh one could.
Given the holidays time we are in I am waiting for the maintainance service to call on us to help configure the Ricoh, hopefully, because I don't know what's needed to have this feature and how to install it.
Anyway, knowing I am on the right path is already an answer.
Thank you very much
Lucia
Il giorno mar 10 ago 2021 alle ore 14:30 Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
Hello Maria,
Am 10.08.2021 um 11:03 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>:
Does any of you have any suggestion to make me have PDF print from
IFS
without having to buy other software?
Silly question: Does the printer in question support rendering PDFs
directly to paper?
I get you have been copying the PDFs to the printer by FTP? Did you
use binary mode?
Otherwise, I'm not sure what the printing system of IBM i does with
PDFs when they go through the spooling subsystem.
:wq! PoC
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