On the HP3000, we used OPENPDF and SPOOLPDF available from OpenSeas.


The OPENPDF product was a Unix port anyway and we're now using that port
having migrated to MPUX (from Ordina) sitting "on top" of HP-UX.   We
had to write the SPOOLPDF option ourselves to convert MPUX's spoolfiles
so that they could be processed by the unix  version of the openpdf
product - but that was reasonably trivial ! 

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Sent: 21 January 2011 22:23
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Creating PDFs on HP3000

Adding to what Lars said, there is also a OpenSource PDF tool.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

The concept, setup a network PDF printer.

Some assembly required, and batteries not included.

Mike.


Quoting "Lars Appel" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Jack Connor wrote:
>> What would be the recommendation for a tool to convert MPE spoofles 
>> to PDFs that would then be FTP'd down to a WinTel environment?
>
> With the target being a WinTel system... I wonder if it might make 
> sense to configure a "dummy" network printer on MPE/iX and have it 
> send spooler output to a little socket listener on the WinTel system 
> (similar to the FakeLP example from the 3000-L archive) and then 
> invoke GhostPCL on the Windows side for generating the PDF output.
>
> The "dummy" network printer would let the MPE spooler take care of the

> PCL conversion and also perform the "file transfer" automagically. The

> GhostPCL software is probably easier to get (or build / update) on 
> Windows than on MPE (okay... I admit that it did also build on MPE 
> long ago ;-)
>
> Lars.
>
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