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It is not too bad, Edouard, but there is not much handholding available cuz you are in a Unix world here. You might look in the archives here - there was a brief discussion of this recently.

First you need to install ghostscript or whatever in PASE - the AIX binaries are available at a public domain site http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu - there are a couple important tabs - one is labeled "Executable Info" - gives you commands for installing the packages. The other is "FAQ" - not much there.

You want to find out which version of AIX you have - that depends on the version of OS/400 - there are charts in the PASE section at InfoCenter. Because we support multiple releases, I download a pretty early version.

ghostscript is listed under text utilities, but you also want the ghostscript fonts - there are 2 sets under fonts. For working with PDFs, I think it is a good idea to get the TrueType fonts on the iSeries - you actually can use the ones you have in Windows, just copy them to the IFS. And there are some with various products on iSeries.

Hope this gives you a beginning - running things in PASE from CL involves the use ot eh QP2SHELL or QP2SHELL2 command - the latter is not available in earlier releases. You will want to look at the iSeries PASE documentation - under Shells under Programming in InfoCenter, IIRC. This gives you iSeries help for talking to PASE - the actual AIX stuff you have to get from IBM's AIX InfoCenter.

At 06:43 AM 11/22/2006, you wrote:

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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