RE: Printing Tiff image

["Bob Crothers" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

TIFFLIB is for manipulating TIFF images.  Eg: Read TIFF images Exploding
them to a bitmap, compressing them,  rewriting them, and things of this
nature.  I do not think it has a way to "add text".

There is software out there to "write text to an image", but I don't know
where/what it is.  But I have seen it.  Time to get a good search engine and
have spend an afternoon looking.  I like Copernic www.copernic.com for this
sort of thing.

Focus on the stuff meant for Unix as it tends to be easier to port to the
AS/400 than the WinTel stuff.

You will need an ILE/C compiler and you will have to know how to use it for
any of the above.

There could be (and probably is) a much easier way of doing what you want to
do....I am only addressing the TIFFLIB aspect.

Regards,
Bob Crothers
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:42 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Printing Tiff image


     We're researchine for a new project, and need some pointers. We
     need to produce a report bundle of several forms including a
     scanned tiff image. We need the scanned document to print with a
     text header for reference purposes.

     The problem:
     Using QcvtImg API to convert the TIFF to *IPDS, but we cannot
     figure out how to include the text header. We would use page
     segments and prtf if we could automate the conversion to IOCA
     format, but we can't see any way to do this directly.

     The redbook "Printing V" has example output which is similar to
     what we need, but they included no code to demonstrate technique.
     We're also a bit concerned with performance as we expect to print
     more than 8000 bundles daily.

     I checked the archives yesterday for additional info, and came up
     with a few possibilities. Bob Crothers mentioned freeware TIFLIB as
     a means of manipulating tiffs on the as400, but we're unfamilliar
     with its capabilities and are unsure if it could be applied to our
     project.

     Any ideas?

     tia
     eric.delong@pmsi-services.com


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