Re: LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

2013-06-12 Thread Patrick Zaloum
It turns out these are HP PCL control codes (Thanks Mark N) I resolved my problem by first filtering the input through ghost-pcl to convert it to a CUPS input friendly format and then was able to generate my PDF file output. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at

Re: LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

2013-06-12 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 12:01:19 -0400, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > If I remove the control characters from my local copy of the print job and > resubmit it, the PDF gets produced. Otherwise the process ends with an > unrecoverable ghostscript error -1 and a blank PDF. Using a basic text-only > printer

LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

2013-06-11 Thread Patrick Zaloum
Hello I am struggling with an issue - hopefully someone has some experience they can share. I am trying to implement a PDF printer for a legacy mainframe process that prints reports to an LPR remote target. I have no access to the job provider, I am on the target end with a setup as below: cups-lpd