Re: Print PDF from URL with RPG

Thank you Charles - I'll dig into this, and I appreciate the quick reply!

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 3:30 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Print PDF from URL with RPG

Does your printer understand PDF files? Most newer ones do...

In that case it's easy.
1) Retrieve the PDF
2) Send it to the printer

For step 1), you can use Scott's HTTPAPI..
http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/

For step 2)
If your print server includes an FTP service, you could use FTP (via Scott's FTPAPI) http://www.scottklement.com/ftpapi/
Or you could spool it to a *USERASCII spool file http://iprodeveloper.com/rpg-programming/how-do-i-print-pdf-file-ifs
http://www.scottklement.com/PrtStmf.zip

If your printer doesn't understand PDF, then you'd need to convert the PDF to PCL and send the PCL to the printer using FTP or the spool subsystem.
Ghostscript is probably the tool of choice. Here's an old thread about using it...
http://www.scottklement.com/archives/ftpapi/200903/msg00083.html

Charles

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Jeffrey Day <Jeff.Day@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey good afternoon everyone!

Can anybody give me a step up here? I've been trying to get my head
around how I can retrieve a PDF from a URL, and print it via an IBM i
outq with RPG or CL.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so if someone has some sample
code, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could share it.

Thanks,
Jeff



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