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Right you are. I wrote a little RPG program that interprets the print
control characters and expands it out to a print image, plus inserts an
ASCII form feed. I forgot that I did this to get it into a reasonable
format.

I like the other note here that points the output of a Client Access
printer to the Acrobat print file. That sounds more elegant!

Patrick

Don wrote:
> 
> Patrick,
> 
> I agree, but the resultant PF of the CPYSPLF is a flat file...I'ld like
> the pagination to remain intact ...this damn things 1200 pages and I don't
> want to do hard carriage returns through it each week...:)
> 
> Don
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Patrick Townsend wrote:
> 
> > Don,
> >
> > You can copy the spool file to a flat file on the AS/400 using the
> > CPYSPLF command. Then use FTP to bring it down to the PC, pull it into
> > your favorite word processor, and print to the Acrobat Windows printer
> > file. That should do it!
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > Don wrote:
> > >
> > > what's the simple way of converting a splf into Adobe format so that I can
> > > go from a splf>PF>PC Document>Adobe (.pdf) file for viewer via accrobat?
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > Don in DC...
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