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Tom,

What you're doing is generating a spooled file and then converting it to PDF. The problem with that approach is that you're limited to what spooled files can do. Since spooled files don't have hyperlink capabilities, you can't create a hyperlink.

If you generate a PDF directly, then you can do anything a PDF can do (which is quite an extensive list of things! Including, of course, creating links...)

But, this will be a whole different world from just generating a spooled file. (In other words, there is a learning curve, here!)

Where I work, we use a package called PDFLib. It is a commercial product, but is inexpensive. It is available for just about every OS and programming language, anywhere (including ILE RPG on IBM i)
http://www.pdflib.com/products/platforms/

What that gives you is a set of APIs (subprocedures) that you can call to create a PDF document with just about any feature you can think of. It's much simpler than building the PDF from scratch and well worth the cost.

There's also iText (as others have mentioned) which is free, but unlike PDFLib, it is not a native ILE tool, it is a set of Java classes. If you don't mind Java, that'd also work.

Good luck!


On 3/21/2016 11:00 AM, Tom wrote:
(system V6r1m1)



I have a program which creates PDFs from a qsysprt override, it's been
working well for weeks. Client now wants to include within the generated
PDF some links to various webpages on their webserver. The link is to look
something like 'AB-CC-00001', and when the user clicks the link a webpage
opens at the referenced page.



I'm fairly certain that what I'm doing now (override qsysprt to pdf) will
not get the job done, and that I'll need some other utility.



Some recommendations?



Thanks,

TomH





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