RE: Emailing the spool file

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Search IBM Web sites such as www.ibm.com/printers/iseries for: Info Print;
PSF/400; or Content Management.

Info Print for OS/400 V5R1 comes with Info Print Designer and Info Print
Server.

Info Print Designer is like DDS on steroids, where you take existing output
(like Invoices) & make them look like you got infinite money to make them
look pretty.  In actuality you are taking the 400 spool output through a
Transformation Editor on WinDoze, with IF logic conditioned from info in
print data stream, to provide different colorful GUI patterns for different
pages, with the end result being to put the whole thing back into the 400
spool file again in the souped up edition, with  arrangements such that the
next time you print the same job, it can automatically go through the same
transformation.

I believe this comes free with OS/400 V5R1, but you have to PAY IBM to be
able to DO anything meaningful with your pretty output, using Info Print
Server.

Info Print Server is where you take the fancy output and publish it to
Internet, indexed PDF, into e-mail, fax, printing, archives, or merge
drawings with spool as in shop floor control or documents to customers.  I
attended an IBM seminar on this stuff.  Illustration at www.SuperSunSeeds.com


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Al Macintyre (macwheel99@sigecom.net via Eudora)