Printing UDCs in PDT mode

To print UDCs in PDT mode, configure these settings on the Printing tab of the connection settings editor:

Select Basic text files (Plain text format) from the drop-down list in the Initialize Print Settings section.
Click Initialize.

Set the following values in the Name/Value table:

Table 1. Name/Value table settings
Name	Value
PDTFile	The path to the PDTfile, for example, MyPDT/PDTFileName.hodpdt. See below the table of PDT file names to use depending on your code page and supported PDT printers.
printDestination	false
printMimeType	application/octet-stream
printSaveAsExtension	.out
separateFiles	true
useAdobePDF	false
usePDT	true
useWindowsPrinter	false

Note: The following table shows the PDT file names to use for the PDTFile setting in the Name/Value table, depending on your code page and supported PDT printers. For information about using the Host On-Demand PDT compiler, see Using the Host On-Demand PDT compiler.

Table 2. PDT file names
Code page	Supported PDT printer	PDT file name
930 Japanese (Katakana) 930 Japan (Katakana Extended) 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 1390 Japanese (Katakana Unicode Extended) 1399 Japanese (Latin Unicode Extended)	ASCII text mode	/pdfpdt/basic_dbcs.hodpdt
	Printers based on ESC/P 24-J84	/pdfpdt/esc_p.hodpdt
	IBM® 5577-B02,F02,G02,H02	/pdfpdt/ibm5577.hodpdt
	IBM 5585-H01 Printer	/pdfpdt/ibm5585.hodpdt
	IBM 5587-G01,H01 (without advanced function)	/pdfpdt/ibm5587.hodpdt
	Lips3a4 Printer	/pdfpdt/lips3a4.hodpdt
	Lips3b4 Printer	/pdfpdt/lips3b4.hodpdt
933 Korea (Extended) 1364 Korea Euro	Korea IBM 5577 Printer	/pdfpdt/ibm5577k.hodpdt
	Ks_jo Printer	/pdfpdt/ks_jo.hodpdt
	Ks_wan Printer	/pdfpdt/ks_wan.hodpdt
	Kssm_jo Printer	/pdfpdt/kssm_jo.hodpdt
	Kssm_wan Printer	/pdfpdt/kssm_wan.hodpdt
937 Taiwan (Traditional Chinese Extended) 1371 Taiwan (Traditional Chinese) Euro	Traditional Chinese ESC/P Printer (5550)	/pdfpdt/esc_5550.hodpdt
	Traditional Chinese ESC/P Printer (big-5)	/pdfpdt/esc_big5.hodpdt
	Traditional Chinese ESC/P Printer (cns)	/pdfpdt/esc_cns.hodpdt
	Traditional Chinese ESC/P Printer (tca)	/pdfpdt/esc_tca.hodpdt
	Traditional Chinese IBM 5577 Printer (without advanced function)	/pdfpdt/ibm5577t.hodpdt
	Traditional Chinese IBM 5585 Printer	/pdfpdt/ibm5585t.hodpdt
1388 PRC (Simplified Chinese Extended; GB18030)	Simplified Chinese ESC/P Printer	/pdfpdt/esc_pp.hodpdt

To print the file content in PDT mode with a local PDT printer, follow these steps:

Download the PDT file from the ZIETrans print job list.
At a DOS prompt, enter type xxxx.out > prn to send the file to the local PDT printer.