Re: [LINUX5250] scs2pdf generates 'broken' PDFs

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to generate a PDF-file from a SCS-Stream. Lp5250d connect to the
> AS400-System as a printer and printing through scs2ascii with Host
> Printing Transformation works fine for my OKI590. 
> But if i try to create a PDF file from the IBM AS/400-SCS-Stream,
> scs2pdf results in a broken file, readable with acrobat reader / xpdf,
> but with many formatting errors.
>
> The first thing i tried is to create it directly using "scs2pdf >
> /tmp/output.ps" as outputcommand for lp2550d. The result was a file
> described above. 
> Then i tried creating the file manually by saving the scs-data with
> outputcommand="cat - > /tmp/output.scs" and then "cat /tmp/output.scs |
> scs2pdf > /tmp/output.pdf".
> This created the output.pdf file and, on stderr, i got a list of which i
> would say it were fragments of the pdf-file. 
> So i tried to use "cat /tmp/output.scs | scs2pdf &> /tmp/output.pdf".
> Everything seemed to be ok, no stderr-output but the result was not the
> expected, clean pdf-file. 
>
> These three ways result in a pdf-file, readable by pdf-viewers, but with
> format mistakes (missing Spaces/LFs, dupicate words, words overwritten
> by others...). 
>
> I use the following lp5250d-environment defined in the
> /root/.tn5250rc-File:
>
> ...snip...
>
> asciiprint {
>    host = 192.168.0.10
>    map = 273
>    env.DEVNAME = EDV
>    env.IBMMFRTYPMDL = *OKI590IBM
>    outputcommand = scs2ascii | lpr
> }
>
> [//comment: for the ascii-output , works fine]
>
> pdf {
>    host = 192.168.0.10
>    map = 273
>    env.DEVNAME = EDV
>    outputcommand = scs2pdf > /tmp/output.pdf
> }
>
> plain {
>    host = 192.168.0.10
>    map = 273
>    env.DEVNAME = EDV
>    outputcommand = cat - > /tmp/output.scs
> }
>    
>
> .../snip...
>
> the syslog does only show the "Job Completed"-message when receiving a
> stream from the AS/400.
> The same with the log-file passed to lp5250d through the trace=/file -
> option: No errors...
>
> I tried to open the pdf-files with the Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.

scs2pdf in all current versions has a formatting bug.  I have fixed this 
bug but the fix isn't in CVS yet.  I have a tarball that you can try 
which includes the fix.  It is available at:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250.tar.gz

Please try this and see if it fixes your problems.  If it doesn't, send 
me the raw scs output and I'll see what is going on.

The fix will be applied to CVS when I get the patch cleaned up a little.

James Rich