There is program called txt2pdf by Sanface Software that I got to work 
on my HP3000 20 years ago.

It just needed to perl on the HP3000.

While still open source it isn't free, cost me $100 bucks back then.  I 
think it is $150 now.  (The money gets rid of the software attribution 
on each page of output.)

A search for "txt2pdf" and "sanface" puts it at the top of the list in 
Duck Duck Go.

To weed the carriage control out in spool files, I had to run them 
through sf2html (by Beechglen) first.


On 4/21/21 8:52 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Tue, April 20, 2021 17:55, O'Neill, Timothy J CIV USARMY ATEC (USA) wrote:
>> Unless your 3K is also on the 192.168, you would need to configure a route to
> the 192.168 network.
>
> Thanks, one never knows what may have been overlooked.  However, in this case
> the network topography is not at issue.  Although our internal addressing
> scheme is a mess that developed slowly over 25 years of tinkering.
>
> Our HP3000s have been on our network since 1990.  We have been using networked
> printers since that time.  The host, routing, and gateway addresses all work
> and have for decades.  They are not pretty, but they are straight forward; and
> they do work reliably.
>
> The issue is not the network per se.  It is the fact that I am trying to
> MacGyver a pdf conversion process using 1994 technology and open source
> software only.
>
> Nobody has ever accused me of having reasonable expectations and I have no
> intention of giving any evidence to the contrary at this late date.
>
>

-- 
Tracy Johnson
BT







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