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I would like to do so but it would be the first experience with PASE and Inter Environment Communication with us. Is there somewehere handy documentation or handholding available to make it work?? Just a wish.... ----- Original Message ---- From: "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:37:26 PM Subject: RE: Distilling postscript files Dan, Perhaps you should just load Ghostscript to your iSeries PASE and use it natively on OS400.... Just a thought... -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:13 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Distilling postscript files (Cross-posted to Midrange-L and PCtech-L I'm not really sure how appropriate the subject line is. We use a software package (DOC1) that generates postscript files on the 400. I have no control over the DOC1 process, I have access only to the final produced postscript files. One of our group's responsibilities is to produce PDF samples of each unique form, and a single postscript file will contain hundreds of pages with the different forms. Currently, we are downloading the postscript files to the PC and using Ghostview/GSView to look at the output and generate the PDF forms. It is an extremely labor intensive process to produce 40-50 PDF samples and we're thinking that there simply must be a better way. Each PDF sample we produce has a name given it that could be extracted from the front and back of the page we are trying to convert. In fact, I just tried the Text Extract function of Ghostview and see that I could concatenate the first line of text (the form's title) to the last line of text (the form ID) to generate the file name I need. Because there will be duplicates generated in this naming scheme, I would like to append a sequence number at the end of the name. Easiest net result, if there are 300 pages in the postscript file, I want to produce 150 PDF files, each file a front and back page. I thought something called Acrobat Distiller might be worth looking into, but it appears to be an obsolete product from 7 or 8 years ago. We are willing to look at freeware, shareware, and commercial apps. TIA, Dan
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