Re[2]: Printing Tiff image

     Thanks Bob,
     
     I'm thinking that the piece we need is something to convert the 
     images from tiff to IOCA on the as400. Assuming that we can do 
     that, we can make a page segment and incorporate the image into a 
     prtf that has our text header. We'd rather stay away from 
     dedicating a PC to do the tiff to IOCA conversion, as that adds 
     complexity and detracts from reliability.
     
     Thanks again,
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com


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Subject: RE: Printing Tiff image  
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> at INET_WACO
Date:    7/26/00 12:34 PM


Eric,
     
TIFFLIB is for manipulating TIFF images.  Eg: Read TIFF images Exploding 
them to a bitmap, compressing them,  rewriting them, and things of this 
nature.  I do not think it has a way to "add text".
     
There is software out there to "write text to an image", but I don't know 
where/what it is.  But I have seen it.  Time to get a good search engine and 
have spend an afternoon looking.  I like Copernic www.copernic.com for this 
sort of thing.
     
Focus on the stuff meant for Unix as it tends to be easier to port to the 
AS/400 than the WinTel stuff.
     
You will need an ILE/C compiler and you will have to know how to use it for 
any of the above.
     
There could be (and probably is) a much easier way of doing what you want to 
do....I am only addressing the TIFFLIB aspect.
     
Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On 
Behalf Of eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:42 AM 
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Printing Tiff image
     
     
     We're researchine for a new project, and need some pointers. We 
     need to produce a report bundle of several forms including a 
     scanned tiff image. We need the scanned document to print with a 
     text header for reference purposes.
     
     The problem:
     Using QcvtImg API to convert the TIFF to *IPDS, but we cannot 
     figure out how to include the text header. We would use page 
     segments and prtf if we could automate the conversion to IOCA 
     format, but we can't see any way to do this directly.
     
     The redbook "Printing V" has example output which is similar to 
     what we need, but they included no code to demonstrate technique. 
     We're also a bit concerned with performance as we expect to print 
     more than 8000 bundles daily.
     
     I checked the archives yesterday for additional info, and came up 
     with a few possibilities. Bob Crothers mentioned freeware TIFLIB as 
     a means of manipulating tiffs on the as400, but we're unfamilliar 
     with its capabilities and are unsure if it could be applied to our 
     project.
     
     Any ideas?
     
     tia
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
     
     
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