Re: Adobe Printer files

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Vernon,

What I was trying to do was create a pdf file in the ifs from a spool
file, and then perform some action on the pdf file from the program which
generated that spool file.

However the way Infoprint server seems to work is you create a writer and
attach their config to this.  It generates the pdf file, and if you
requested it, will log something into a data queue.  But it does this as a
background task and not under the control of the program which generates
the spool file.

I've come up with a couple of alternatives.
1)  When I move the spool file off to the writer give it x seconds and
then try to access the pdf file it generates.  Sample pdf file that this
generates is:
/robpdf/ROBS1/ROB/989759_000005_QSYSPRT_07182002_000001.PDF
which is
yourdir/jobname/username/jobnbr_splfilenbr_splfilename_date_someseq#.PDF
Hey, IBM came up with this format, I didn't.  You cannot change it.  The
sequence number normally stays at one, unless you are using specific DDS
keywords or some such thing.

2)  Figure out how to use the data queue.  However no map of the data
queue is given.  I have created a data queue and analyzed the results.
However I don't want to get bitten on release upgrades, etc, and I want an
official IBM map of this data queue.  They don't even tell us how big to
make it.  (I made it too small the first time.)

Rob Berendt
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InfoPrint Server has this builtin - check out the user
Guide at
<http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/boo
ks/isag0mst.pdf>. There is a chapter on IPDS to PDF
transform.
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> Is there a way, using Infoprint Server, or any other "IBM Supplied"
> utility to convert a spool file into a pdf file within the IFS?
>
> We got Infoprint server.  And we can send spool files out as email.  But
> using the server to generate email with the attachment, along with some
> text, seems to be a little tricky.
>
> Rob Berendt
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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