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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
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> I was not aware of printers understanding the PDF format.
> Some print driver must convert the PDF into something usable
> by the printer. I believe AOP can print a PDF, but it
> converts it to a format that the printer can understand.
Indeed, the .PDF is "just another bytestream", like Postscript, AFP, IPDS,
PCL, etc. It just seems there should be a way to use the spool to "hold" it
(in whatever-size "chunks" is convenient) without having ANSI
carriage-control characters prefixed onto each "chunk". I.e., we're not
trying to turn the .PDF file into the equivalent of a "COBOL Print File";
we're trying NOT to do so.
It seems that that "can't be done" if the target is a SYSOUT dataset.
-jc-
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