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Hi James, > Would you please explain how you got raw PS to attached printer. > > I could never get it to print directly. > > Had to write to IFS and then using PrintFile or Ghostscript to send > to printer defined as text/generic. I actually do write it to a stream file first, because I don't know at the time that the data is generated whether it's going to be sent to the printer or whether it's going to be e-mailed. If it's going to be e-mailed, I use the ps2pdf utility from Ghostscript to convert the data to a PDF document, and then I e-mail that. If it's going to be printed, I use the following code snippet: D wkBuf s 132A . . wwIn = open(peFileName : O_RDONLY); if (wwIn < 0); ... I put an error on the screen and abort if this happens ... endif; wwCmd = 'OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT) DEVTYPE(*USERASCII) DEV(' + %trim(peDev) + ') OUTQ(' + %trim(peOutq) + ')'; QCMDEXC(wwCmd: %len(wwCmd)); open QSYSPRT; wkBuf = *ALLx'20'; dow (read(wwIn: %addr(wkBuf): %size(wkBuf)) > 0); except; wkBuf = *ALLx'20'; // x'20' = ASCII BLANK enddo; callp close(wwIn); close QSYSPRT; wwCmd = 'DLTOVR FILE(QSYSPRT)'; QCMDEXC(wwCmd: %len(wwCmd)); . . OQSYSPRT E O wkBuf 132 The key to the entire process ithe DEVTYPE(*USERASCII). This tells OS/400 to send the data to the printer as-is without any modification. As I mentioned before, this also means that you lose a lot of the features of the spooler. You can't view the document, or see how many pages it is, or print a page range. On the other hand, after doing a ps2pdf on the stream file, I can view it with Acrobat Reader, and print a page range from the PC if I want to -- just can't do it from OS/400. It's not a problem for me because the user is looking at a purchase order on the screen when he has the option to print it, and it prints the one PO, which is usually about a page long, sometimes two... so printing a page range isn't very useful in our case. PostScript works very well in this case. Plus, we have Hylafax running on a FreeBSD server (the same one that we use for Ghostscript/ps2pdf) and it's able to send a PostScript document as a fax... that way, anyone can fax a document directly from any 5250 terminal... But, now I'm rambling... :)
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