Understanding Pass-Through Print Filters

The pass-through print filter enables you to send PDF documents directly to a print queue without converting it to a printer language format. To use a pass-through print filter, you define a custom PDL. To define a pass-through print filter, first select the Custom PDL on the Printer Setup form in P98616, and then select Advanced from the Form menu.

If you are making a copy of a conversion program, the Parameter String field is populated based on the filter that you selected on the Work With Conversion Programs form.

This example defines the parameter string options for pass-through print filters:

-s script_name -l library_name -f FunctionName 

Where -s defines the shell script name (used on UNIX to send to a printer), -l defines the shared library name (this option is the letter l, not the number 1), and -f defines the function name within that shared library to use for PDF conversion.

If the conversion program name is *JDE PDF, no conversion occurs and the PDF file is sent to the print queue.

The parameter string for Unix is:

-s POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER 

The -l and -f parameters are ignored.