Re: How to print an IFS PDF file on a LAN printer

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 10:14 AM Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I can't do is to have these PDFs sent to a physical printer: the
> methods I know about (reading file from IFS and sent it to an *USERASCII
> print file or FTP it) both require the physical printer to accept direct
> print, so at this time I am struggling with it.
>
> It seems there is no way (except Infoprint) to make the conversion in the
> Ibm system before sending the spool file to the physical printer.

Someone else mentioned using Ghostscript to convert PDF to other
formats (presumably one that your printer can handle directly).
Ghostscript is freely available software, and it's already been built
for PASE, released by IBM as a yum-installable RPM.

John Y.