Submitted by James Worley on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 00:00
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I need to know how and where to install Ghostscript on the iSeries so I can help a customer fax PDF (*USERASCII or *PS) files using Bluefax.
Do I need to have PASE installed as well?
 

James Worley
Implementation Specialist
Technical Support Manager

Kaj Vang Jensen

Wed, 07/27/2011 - 00:00

Hi James

You can user the following procedure:

  • OS/400 license program 5722SS1 (option 33) OS/400 - Portable App Solutions Environment must be installed and requires OS/400 V5R2M0 to be installed
  • GhostScript 8.01 must be installed in the IFS on the iSeries. It's required that the GhostScript be installed into IFS directory xxx/public2/ghostscript (where xxx are the "Image File Path" found on last page in the BlueSeries WRKxVAL command).
    Unzip http://demo.icebreak.org/webfiles/BlueSeries/gs.zip (Approx 11 mb) to the above directory.
  • Please note that GhostScript have some special license rules.
    So, it is important that you read the license rules before installing the GhostScript software.
    See: http://www.ghostscript.com/Ghostscript.html

PDF to TIFF

  1. Use CVTXOBJ ( select TIFFG3 orTIFFG4)
  2. Then MRGXOBJ for merging the files and finally the SNDXOBJ command for faxing.

Regards,

Kaj

PS: PASE is required for GostScript, but PASE is not required for MRGXOBJ.