Re: Converting PDF to PCL successful

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, that's what I believe - I have to put that PCL into a *USERASCII 
spooled file, then it should just work.

I'll know more sometime tomorrow, methinks!

Cheers
Vern

On 8/16/2016 9:21 PM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
> Interesting development!  So if that raw PCL is put in a printer device queue would it print for real?
>
> Mike Cunningham
>
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> Hi all
>
> Just succeeded in converting a PDF file to raw PCL on the IBM i. I used a most recent version of Ghostscript.
>
> Basically it "prints" the PDF using a driver that GS has - the following command does the work:
>
> /QOpenSys/opt/freeware/bin/gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=some-pcl.pcl /home/USRDP2/some-pdf.pdf
>
> This is VERRRRY cool!
>
> The driver is for LaserJet 4 - there are other drivers that would also probably work.
>
> Whoopee!!
> Vern
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