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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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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