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Subject:	Re: Creating PDFs on HP3000
From:	Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:42:08 +0100
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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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