PMDF System Manager's Guide

While the printer channel is primarily intended for use with dumb printers such as line printers, it is flexible enough to support PostScript printers requiring raw PostScript (i.e., PostScript printers which are not driven by a symbiont capable of formatting raw ASCII text for printing).

The sample preamble file printer_setup.ps_sample, provided in the PMDF table directory (i.e., as PMDF_TABLE:printer_setup.ps_sample on OpenVMS or as /pmdf/table/printer_setup.ps_sample on UNIX), documents how to do this. As described in this file, simply create the option file x_option in the PMDF table directory, where x is the name of your printer channel (e.g., "printer") and in this file place four lines as shown below. On OpenVMS:

PREAMBLE=@PMDF_TABLE:printer_setup.ps_sample START_ATTRIBUTE=DO_HEADING START_HEADERLINE=DO_HEADER END_COVER=EJECT DO_BODY

On UNIX:

PREAMBLE=@/pmdf/table/printer_setup.ps_sample START_ATTRIBUTE=DO_HEADING START_HEADERLINE=DO_HEADER END_COVER=EJECT DO_BODY

Owing to the design of the sample file printer_setup.ps_sample, it is necessary that there be a space at the end of the lines beginning with START_ATTRIBUTE and START_HEADERLINE.