Re: TXT to PDF

Shouldn't be too difficult to find some Java, Python or PHP code that will
convert text to PDF.

The problem you're going to have is that without the control codes, you're
not going to be able to tell where the page and linefeeds generically.

So you're going to end up with basically a text dump or you'd need to
examine the report and basically hardcode how to convert the text back into
a "report" with appropriate pages and line spacing.

If it's all one report, the latter isn't a big deal. If it's 100s of
reports...well that's not going to be fun unless there's a high amount of
standardization in the headers and footers.

Charles

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Michael Smith <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have several TXT files in an IFS directory that I need to convert to PDF.

The original source for the TXT file data are "old" spool files that no
longer exist on the system.

The TXT files do not contain the printer control characters.

This is not a one time event, the conversion will have occur "real time"
on this files until I have developed a method to replace the TXT file with
a PDF file in our application programs.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Michael Smith
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