Re: Archiving AS/400 Reports to PC files

[David Fowle <dfowle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Leo,

I think that the best format for distributing AS/400 spooled-files to PC 
users is the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). You can find free ware & 
share ware on the net that will let you create your own solution for 
converting spooled-files to PDF. For instance there was an article in 
NEWS/400 about a Java class and  Thomas Merz has a "C" library that can run 
on the AS/400 (PDFlib.com)  Bradley Stone also has shareware that can do 
this conversion for you.

There are also commercial solutions available from Gumbo, RJS , Robot and 
others that may meet your needs. May I  suggest you look at "PDFingMailer" 
http://www.PDFing.com first?

Regards

David Fowle

At 15:03 09/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Here is our situation:
>
>- We have many reports produced on the AS/400 which don't need to be
>printed but must be saved somewhere for "possible" reference
>- Today, we have a procedure that copy those reports to tape.
>- I have not seen a CD Writer on AS/400 mdel 170 (am I way out?)
>- I would like to save those reports on CD, so I would have to transfer
>them to PC files to eventually move them to CD.
>
>1) Can it be done easily?
>2) Can I save them in a format (like Rich Text Format)  I could, then,
>"print" to Adobe (ie .PDF) files which we could view with the Acrobat
>Reader and print them if needed (from any PC)?
>3) Above scenario is only a suggestion, if you have better ideas, let me
>know, please!
>
>--
>
>Leo Lefebvre
>President
>Toronto Users Group for Midrange Systems
>Visit our home page at <http://www.tug.on.ca>
>Ph: (416) 606-5960   ---   Fx: (416) 495-0100
>mailto:leo@tug.on.ca
>

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