Blank pages when printing from ibm iseries

Hello, i want to use pdfcreator as an ibm iseries printer, but when i print the pages come out blank. (win 8 x64, pdfcreator 1.71)

Here is the log:

26-07-2013 01:49:20 p.m.: Windowsversion: Windows 8 [6.2 Build 9200]
26-07-2013 01:49:20 p.m.: PDFCreator spool directory (Write access: true): C:\Users\fleon\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool\
26-07-2013 01:49:25 p.m.: Ghostscriptparameter:
-IC:\Program Files (x86)\PDFCreator\GS9.07\gs9.07\Lib\
-q
-dNOPAUSE
-dBATCH
-sFONTPATH=C:\Windows\Fonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-dPDFSETTINGS=/default
-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK
-dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage
-dCompressPages=true
-dEmbedAllFonts=true
-dSubsetFonts=true
-dMaxSubsetPct=100
-dConvertCMYKImagesToRGB=false
-sOutputFile=C:\Users\fleon\Desktop\Sesión A - [24 x 80].pdf
-dEncodeColorImages=true
-dAutoFilterColorImages=true
-dEncodeGrayImages=true
-dAutoFilterGrayImages=true
-dEncodeMonoImages=true
-dMonoImageFilter=/CCITTFaxEncode
-dDownsampleMonoImages=false
-dPreserveOverprintSettings=true
-dUCRandBGInfo=/Preserve
-dUseFlateCompression=true
-dParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo=true
-dParseDSCComments=true
-dOPM=0
-dOffOptimizations=0
-dLockDistillerParams=false
-dGrayImageDepth=-1
-dASCII85EncodePages=false
-dDefaultRenderingIntent=/Default
-dTransferFunctionInfo=/Preserve
-dPreserveHalftoneInfo=false
-dDetectBlends=true
-f
26-07-2013 01:49:25 p.m.: Error: Error: /undefined in Ee&l0Oe&a0Pe&l1Ce&l0008Ee&l001Ce&l0512Fe&a0Re&l008Ce&l4He&l0Ge&l1Ce&l0008Ee&l001Ce&l0512Fe&a0Re&l008Ce&l0Se; Operand stack:; ; Execution stack:;    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1932   1   3   %oparray_pop   1931   1   3   %oparray_pop   1915   1   3   %oparray_pop   1803   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval–; Dictionary stack:;    --dict:1211/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)–; Current allocation mode is local; Current file position is 108; GPL Ghostscript 9.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1;
26-07-2013 01:49:25 p.m.: Time for converting [PDF without encryption]: 00:00:00:080

Can someone help me with this problem?

This is the “blank” pdf which is being generated.

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endobj
6 0 obj
23
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Type/Page/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
/Parent 3 0 R
/Resources<</ProcSet[/PDF]
>>
/Contents 5 0 R
>>
endobj
3 0 obj
<< /Type /Pages /Kids [
4 0 R
] /Count 1
>>
endobj
1 0 obj
<</Type /Catalog /Pages 3 0 R
/Metadata 7 0 R
>>
endobj
7 0 obj
<</Type/Metadata
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<?adobe-xap-filters esc="CRLF"?>
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<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=‘http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#’ xmlns:iX=‘http://ns.adobe.com/iX/1.0/’>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=‘uuid:badf553a-faba-11e2-0000-02c7314339d4’ xmlns:pdf=‘http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/’>pdf:ProducerGPL Ghostscript 9.07</pdf:Producer>
pdf:Keywords()</pdf:Keywords>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=‘uuid:badf553a-faba-11e2-0000-02c7314339d4’ xmlns:xmp=‘http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/’>xmp:ModifyDate2013-07-29T10:25:11-04:30</xmp:ModifyDate>
xmp:CreateDate2013-07-29T10:25:11-04:30</xmp:CreateDate>
xmp:CreatorToolPDFCreator Version 1.7.1</xmp:CreatorTool></rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=‘uuid:badf553a-faba-11e2-0000-02c7314339d4’ xmlns:xapMM=‘http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/’ xapMM:DocumentID=‘uuid:badf553a-faba-11e2-0000-02c7314339d4’/>
<rdf:Description rdf:about=‘uuid:badf553a-faba-11e2-0000-02c7314339d4’ xmlns:dc=‘http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/’ dc:format=‘application/pdf’>dc:titlerdf:Alt<rdf:li xml:lang=‘x-default’>Sesion B - [24 x 80]</rdf:li></rdf:Alt></dc:title>dc:creatorrdf:Seqrdf:lifleon</rdf:li></rdf:Seq></dc:creator>dc:descriptionrdf:Seqrdf:li()</rdf:li></rdf:Seq></dc:description></rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
                                                                        
                                                                        
<?xpacket end='w'?>
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/CreationDate(D:20130729102511-04’30’)
/ModDate(D:20130729102511-04’30’)
/Author(\376\377\000f\000l\000e\000o\000n)
/Creator(\376\377\000P\000D\000F\000C\000r\000e\000a\000t\000o\000r\000 \000V\000e\000r\000s\000i\000o\000n\000 \0001\000.\0007\000.\0001)
/Keywords()
/Subject()
/Title(\376\377\000S\000e\000s\000i\000o\000n\000 \000B\000 \000-\000 \000[\0002\0004\000 \000x\000 \0008\0000\000])>>endobj
xref
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trailer
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Hi,

you could try using a different ghostscript version as this seems to be a ghostscript issue.

regards,

Robin

I tried the two versions that come with pdfcreator 1.61 (9.03) and 1.71 (9.07)
I reported the bug to the ghostscript developers and they told me that ghostscript didn’t understand PCL so this may not be solvable at all

Hi,

yes sorry PCL is not supported.

regards,

Robin