In some of the products I've come across when I googled, ghostscript is
mentioned.  Do you think ghostscript will be required to get this all to
work?

Another thing I tried but could not get it to work was to set up a BFS
area in VM, define that area to NFS, have a zLinux mount the NFS
mount-point and run ps2pdf (on zLinux).  Something kept getting lost in
the translation.  When I moved the same file from VM to to a Windows
share and have zLinux mount that windows share and run ps2pdf, it worked
fine.  I prefer to run it all on/in CMS.  My 2nd preference would be to
use zLinux.  We have a convoluted way of doing it now.  If the
convoluted way was all relays and lights, it would actually be pretty
fun to watch run. Rube Goldberg comes to mind.

 

From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of David Boyes
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:47 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: postscript to pdf

 

You could probably take the Unix ps2pdf utility. It's in C, eats stdin
and writes to stdout. There shouldn't be any major issues with compiling
it on CMS.  Not fancy, but it'll probably do the job. 


On 12/17/09 1:26 PM, "Gentry, Stephen"
<[email protected]> wrote:

Does anyone know of a program/utility/whatever that will run on VM that
will convert a postscript file to a pdf file?  I know there is an html
to pdf; that is not what I want.  Ideally, it would be written in Rexx
and/or assembler.  I also have Cobol available and C+ on the mainframe.
I've googled but haven't come up with much.
Thanks,
Steve

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