Comments on: iSeries (AS/400) – Wanting to print to PDF using GhostScript or other software

By: leifjacobsen

leifjacobsen — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:05:16 +0000

Hi;

We have also tried to port GhostScript to System I, however the compile into native was not a success. However, we had much luck using the PASE environment and just take a binary AIX distribution. That works perfectly.

Regards

Leif Jacobsen

By: burtnoir

burtnoir — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:27:48 +0000

The previous message sounds like a good idea. I just wanted to add that if you used CUPS then I think it can apply these type of filters (ps2pdf) within itself.

By: astradyne

astradyne — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:16:02 +0000

I think I would do the following:

1) Find some PC based software that installs in the shape of a printer driver and install it on a server.

2) Install an LPD daemon on the server and setup a printer queue that uses the “converter” printer driver.

3) On the AS400 create a remote output queue that points to the LPD queue on the server

4) Send your postscript spool files to the remote output queue for conversion.

Using this method you can have different remote queues for PDF and PCL and different printers. It’s not as elegant as having the conversion done on the AS400, but should work fine.

Jonathan

By: agacat

agacat — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:11:12 +0000

ps2pdf is a free gnu utility – see if you can build it using cygwin, or yank off a PC and load linux.