Tom:
Shouldn't this file be sent raw to the printer? I seem to recall I was
working on signature fonts and was able to easily print the font to the
printer in some kind of raw mode. I can't find my notes on the process but
I think I used something like:
lpr -PMyPrinter -bMyFont.spf
This sent the job to the printer, raw, without any preprocessing. Maybe
this is your issue.
Bill
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> Subject: RE: [U2] Printing PDF from UniData/AIX
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/01/2005 5:53 PDT
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> > Is there a way to print PDF files from AIX using a command from
> > UniData?
>
> Troy Buss of Logitek Systems replied off-list on 07/01/2005
> 15:18:40 EDT:
>
> > As a one time setup, you can also print the PDF to the
> printer using
> > the correct windows driver but select 'print to file' and take the
> > output file that would have gone to the printer and put it
> in the AIX
> > filesystem, then shell out (of unidata) and print the file using lp
> > cat or some other aix command to send the file directly to the
> > printer.
>
> I tried that. I did a binary ftp to put <file> in /tmp, and
> tried lp -d <queue> /tmp/<file>. The escape sequences for
> the PJL got stripped off, and I had to cancel the job.
>
> The printers are connected to the network JetDirect cards,
> and some of them are old (e.g., HP 4+). I don't know how to
> use cat to send data to an IP address, or I would have tried
> that. Besides, my users specify an AIX form queue to have
> documents print there - I can't change that end of the logic.
> I need to be able to use the form queue name to determine
> where to print it.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, however.
>
> --Tom
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