Re: send system generated PDF to system I printer/out queue

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

If your file ends in .Z (should be a capital Z.  Is it really 
lowercase?) then it's compressed with the Unix 'compress' utility, and 
should be uncompressed with the 'uncompress' utility before extraction.

Note that many OSes allow the 'tar' utility to do both the uncompression 
and the untarring...  but in my experience, this does not work on IBM i. 
 You have to do the steps separately.

So, from PASE:

    uncompress ghostscript.8.54.tar.Z
    tar xf ghostscript.8.54.tar

Also... beware of the 'tar' tool in QShell.  It tries to do CCSID 
conversion of any files it extracts, and that can wreck havoc with the 
contents of the tarball (especially if it's not text to begin with) so 
please make sure you are using the PASE (*not* QShell) version of tar.

Good luck


On 11/8/2011 12:43 PM, Jeff Elam wrote:
> I'm going to try this route, any ideas on why I get the following when I try
> to install ghostscript?  I get this type of error on both files.
>
> tar -xf ghostscript.8.54.tar.z
> tar: 0511-169 A directory checksum error on media; 0 not equal to 53120.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jorge Merino
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 3:54 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: send system generated PDF to system I printer/out queue
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> That is fairly easy if you have PASE installed on your IBMi.
>
> That involves:
> 1) Convert your PDF to PCL using ghostscript.
> 2) FTP the generated file into a printer file.
> 3) Print the new printer file into ANY printer or remote queue attached to
> the IBMi.
>
> An older post here:
> http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201008/msg00519.html
>
> I can help if you need more specifics on how to implement it.
>
> Jorge Merino
> ~JMerinoH~
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Elam
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 12:47 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: send system generated PDF to system I printer/out queue
>
> I am creating PDF invoices/acknowledgements  using overlays and saving them
> to a network share.  My next step is to email them to customers using RPG
> mail (I'm already using RPG mail for other scenarios so that part I can
> handle).  Here is where I need help.   If no email address exist on the
> system for that customer I'd like to send that PDF to a network HP printer
> connected via remote out queue.  Once customer service has that paper copy
> it will be a reminder that the email addresses for that customer needs to be
> entered.
>
>
>
> A while back I created a VB script to print excel spreadsheets from a
> network share.   I would think I could probably use a similar VB script to
> print the PDF since I know the path of the file I just created however I'd
> like to keep the logic all on the system I if I can.        any ideas?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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