using pcl2pdf macro in AIX

[daN baueR]

Thanks but I failed to mention they're using facetwin here not anzio.
I greatly prefer Anzio but so it goes.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Scott Walker
<ScottWalker at ramsystemscorp.com> wrote:
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> This is in reference to an old IBM machine running AIX and filePro
> 4.5.  Not exactly the latest and greatest but it seems to be working
> ok.  They've been running reports for years that have also worked fine
> but recently asked me to send reports optionally to this pdf macro or
> to the printer as in the past.  I have tested the macro and it has
> worked fine if I run it from a shell prompt.
>
> # pcl2pdf  file1  outputfile.pdf
>
> My question is how best to intergrate this macro into filepro as a
> printer option? Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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> I do it using Anziowin.  When they print the report, in Sort/Select
> processing I ask them "P"df or "S"ystem printer.
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> If they choose pdf, then I set "printer local".
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> The report then comes down the line to their pc where Anziowin grabs it and
> coverts it to a .pdf and the .pdf is displayed.  This is what my customers
> wanted.  They did not just want the file created as a .pdf on the Linux (in
> your case AIX) server.  They wanted it created and displayed on their pc.
> From that point they can do with it anything they like (print it, email it,
> save it) etc.
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> Regards,
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> Scott
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