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Operating Systems AIX Print to Windows PDF printer from AIX Post 302936382 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 25th of February 2015 06:18:11 AM

02-25-2015

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You would need to have a print server running on Windows for AIX to send to, normally listening on TCP port 515. You can then define a remote printer to AIX and it should talk using the lpd protocol.

For a print server, we had a need to convert Xerox Escape Sequence (XES) formatted data (a rather old application generated the print file) and we have no printers that recognise XES any more. Our are PCL or occasionally PostScript. We found a German company that provided just what we needed and they are pretty cheap too.

Start page - docuFORM GmbH

I hope I'm not breaching the advertising rules, but it is as a customer.

It allowed us to convert characters that had been hard-coded into the application that the old Xerox printers used that were non-standard for the current devices too. You may also consider MPI Tech, IHS Systems and others, but this is the one we settled on.

If you data requires no conversion, then that's fine too.

Robin

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pstopdf

PSTOPDF(1)							      ConTeXt								PSTOPDF(1)

NAME

       pstopdf - convert EPS to PDF

SYNOPSIS

       pstopdf [ OPTION ...  ] FILE [ ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       pstopdf converts EPS (encapsulated PostScript) to PDF.

OPTIONS

       --help Print usage and version information.

       --convert
	      Convert EPS to PDF.  This option is assumed if none is given.

       --method=string
	      What  method  to use for bounding boxes when converting to PDF.  Specify one of crop, bounded (the default), or raw.  Older versions
	      of ConTeXt used numerical methods (1, 2, or 3).

       --resolution=string
	      The resolution to use when when converting to pdf.  Specify one of low, normal, medium, high,  printer,  print,  screen,	ebook,	or
	      default.

       --request
	      Handle exa request file.

       --watch
	      Watch folders for conversions (untested).

EXAMPLES

       To make cow.pdf:
	  pstopdf cow.eps
       or (one of several equivalents):
	  pstopdf --convert cow.eps cow.pdf

SEE ALSO

       epstopdf(1), mptopdf(1), ps2pdf(1), texexec(1).

       ConTeXt wiki <http://www.contextgarden.net>.

AUTHOR

       This (incomplete) manual page was written by Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu>.  It is in the public domain.

pstopdf 2.0							   December 2006							PSTOPDF(1)