Re: CPYSPLF PDF and PDF Attributes (ie, page size, Font size, etc)

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger,

Yes, they look ok, but what if you want to print something on 8.5x11 paper
without telling it to "shrink to fit".

These odd page sizes could affect both digital and paper type pre-printed
forms and alignment, among other things.

I've had PDF capabilities in my SPLTOOL software for over 15 years used by
thousands of customers all over the world.. way before IBM did, and ran
into all these issues years ago which is how SPLTOOL matured into what it
is today.

We've always supported any page size, but most are 8.5x11 or 11x8.5 or A4
portrait or landscape.  That stays constant.  The font size, line spacing
and starting positions (ie, x,y coordinates) are what change depending on
the spooled file attributes.

But, with IBM it seems the spooled file attributes affect not only font
size, but page size as well.  If I am to recommend it, I'd like to know if
it will mature into something customizable and usable with overlays (PDF)
and pre-printed forms (to a lesser extent).

We have many customers that use our software to add digital PDF overlays to
the PDF files created by our software and if there are no standard page
sizes, fonts, etc that could turn into a huge headache.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I don't recall any settings, but I've used it for some time on 80, 132,
> 145, 165, and 198 wide.  They came out OK for me.
>
> Roger Harman
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
>
>
>
>
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> Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 8:09 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: CPYSPLF PDF and PDF Attributes (ie, page size, Font size, etc)
>
> I've been looking around for this answer buy haven't yet found it.  The
> only info I can find is in the APAR for the PTF that adds the PDF
> functionality and the V7R2 docs for CPYSPLF.
>
> I've trying to figure out if there are settings somewhere that allow a
> user, when creating a PDF using the CPYSPLF command, to set the page size,
> font size, ccsid, etc.
>
> With our SPLTOOL product we have a configuration file that allows you to
> set these things based upon the spooled file attributes (length, width,
> lpi, cpi maps to a PDF page size, font size, spacing, etc).
>
> We even allow customers to set the PDF attributes by user ID, or even by
> using the user defined data.  So this allows customers that use legal, A4,
> or any size paper to set things how they want them.  From 80 to 198 or any
> size reports the PDF output can be customized.
>
> The PDF files I've tested so far using CPYSPLF are 132 wide and the PDF
> generated is 13.19x11.
>
> An 80 column report is created as 8x10.83
>
> This may cause confusion or even problems when printing or, as we also
> allow with our software, adding overlays to the resulting PDF.
>
> If the overlay is made as 8.5x11 (or landscape) and the PDF created from
> CPYSPLF is 13.19x11 things will be out of whack.
>
> Just wondering if these types of settings are available, or maybe will be
> in the future.
>
> It would also be nice to be able to set the CCSID of the file that's
> created as well.
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
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