topic Re: Spool management in Operating System - HP-UX

Spool management

Vicente Sanchez_3 — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:37:33 GMT

Hi all,

As I know it's not possible to print a specific page, or range of pages, of a spool from operating system. I know that there are Comercial software that do this, but do you know any contrib software?

Regards, Vicente.

Re: Spool management

Rita C Workman — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:52:47 GMT

If your asking what software do we recommend..well there have been a few mentioned around:

Unispool
Easyspooler
OMPlus (Plus Technology)

to get you started.

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: Spool management

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:16:54 GMT

We are converting from openspool to Easyspooler.

Easyspooler does not handle pdf docs native, but I can give you a procedure for that.

Their support is pretty good, though sometimes they lose track of calls.

SEP

Re: Spool management

Paul Sperry — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:49:01 GMT

Easyspooler is what we use.

http://www.easyspooler.com/ezspooler.html

Re: Spool management

leesk — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:04:43 GMT

hi SEP,

Could you help me in my question?

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x53ded9c33cd363468b9cbf8e95865970,00.html

Re: Spool management

Bill Hassell — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:01:20 GMT

HP-UX provides no capability to understand pages. In fact, without a full-blown PCL and Postscript interpreter, it would be impossible to position based on pages. The reason is that the majority of print jobs contain extra fonts, graphics, even printer macros, all of which are required to setup the overall environment for the printer (and can't be skipped). So unless your print job is plain ASCII with imbedded formfeeds for each page (or no forms controls at all), there aren't any free choices. For plain ASCII files, you'll have to decide on a job-by-job basis whether to start the new page based on line count of formfeed count.