On 12/17/09 2:58 PM, "Gentry, Stephen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> In some of the products I¹ve come across when I googled, ghostscript is > mentioned. Do you think ghostscript will be required to get this all to work? Something has to interpret the PostScript to a raster that can be transformed into a simple form PDF. Ghostscript is the usual culprit. Another way to do it would be (if you have a RSCS license for the TCPNJE functions) to use the NJE Bridge code and set up a custom file processing exit on a Linux system. SENDFILE the PS file to the designated userid on the Linux system, and the Linux system runs ps2pdf and sends you the PDF in your RDR. You just run WAKEUP and hang out until the file arrives. Very CMSy. You could write a simple NQS client for CMS. That would be handy all round. We can talk off list about getting you a copy of NQS for Linux on Z. I also seem to remember that Lionel Dyck had a version of XMITIP that ran on VM and provided some PS2PDF function. I don't remember whether VSE2PDF runs on VM any more -- Tony? > 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. You're probably getting bitten by line end processing because PS looks like text. Make sure you specify that PS and PDF files are binary by default.
