First up - Adobe PDF is a subset of the Adobe Postscript page description language (PDL).
Some printer vendors have Postscript emulations. Most business class laser/LED printers or multi-function devices (MFDs) today have intelligent page description language detection built in and typically analyse the datastream before attempting to do anything with it...mean that they can switch between plain text from UniVerse or UNIX or PDF/Postscript or HP PCL / PXL formats and others on-the-fly... Some modern printers have Adobe PDF and Adobe Postscript (or an emulation) built-in. Meaning they can be sent files in either format. . (Side note - Google: "PDF Direct Print support"). If you have printers are capable of accepting Adobe PDF files - then just simply "submit" an those files direct to the printer from your host. If your printer has Adobe Postscript or a Postscript emulation - you translate the PDF data file into 'native' Postscript via Ghostscript or similar toolset prior to sending it to the printer. If you don't have any Postscript capable printers - you can - using Ghostscript translate the file from PDF into HP PCL or similar PDL (many are supported). Then send the generated output to your printer queue. You can write custom version of the Ghostscript supplied 'ps2pdf' script to generate to PCL file from an Postscript file (and call the script, say "ps2pcl"). It's not difficult to customise this scripts for your own output device (printer, image file, etc)... have done this before... As implied by others - you won't have the same capabilities nor any options to dynamically or selectively control over the output (orientation, N-up printing, duplex, tray selection, page-fit, paper type, copies, page range, etc)... that you can perform from Windows Acrobat PDF viewer. An alternative to this is to perhaps utilise one or more host-based printer print queue defined for (some of these may be feasible) such printing preferences, etc. HPJetDirect for HPUX and other UNIX platforms is pretty feature rich especially when talking with HPDirectJet printers... See what Adobe has on this issue here: http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdf.html Cheers, David -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Conway - Bamac LTD Sent: Friday, 5 April 2013 2:54 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] How do you print a ".pdf" from inside a Unix Box I may have missed this discussion but if someone can help me that would be great. We have been executing a SB command to windows to open Adobe and print the PDF document. We would like to either not have to open Adobe and print the document or print the document from within our Unix box. We have a hp7640 11iv3 running on an Itanium processor. Here is the Unidata information: Module Name Version Licensed UniData RDBMS............ 7.2 Yes Connection Pooling....... 7.2 No Device License........... 7.2 No NFA...................... 7.2 No RFS...................... 7.2 No EDA...................... 7.2 No 721 Oh, love this list, I have been using Pick since 1985 and still going strong. Bruce _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ************** IMPORTANT MESSAGE ***************************** This e-mail message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information which may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please advise the sender by return email, do not use or disclose the contents, and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Unless specifically indicated, this email does not constitute formal advice or commitment by the sender or the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ABN 48 123 123 124) or its subsidiaries. We can be contacted through our web site: commbank.com.au. If you no longer wish to receive commercial electronic messages from us, please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. ************************************************************** _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
