RE: Creating Adobe Acrobat files on AS/400

["Ed Chabot" <echabot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I came in at the tail end of this and may not have read the initial email
yet, but, there is a free utility in the July 2000 News/400 magazine that we
downloaded and use that will convert spool files to PDF format as well as
HTML and ASCII.  It may be worth a look.  Hope that helps.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Fowle
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:42 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Creating Adobe Acrobat files on AS/400


I would like to add my own recommendation of PdfLib http://www.pdflib.com.
to Patrick's (see below). It is also worth pointing out that the
documentation is excellent and that you get the source-code in "C", this is
well worth inspecting as an example of how to write readable cross-platform
code.

Although my product PDFingMailer http://www.pdfing.com uses the Windows
version of PdfLib to create PDF documents from *SCS spooled-files,  I also
helped Thomas Merz, the author of PdfLib, to port his library to the AS400
and I can vouch for its functionality.

Regards

David Fowle

At 16:27 23/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
>You might check out the PDFLib stuff. I think the web site is
>http://www.pdflib.com. They have either have an AS/400 version, or
>instructions on how to create an AS/400 version. Once you have that you
have
>to master the APIs to build PDF images. But its a lot easier than creating
>PDF yourself!
>
>Patrick
>---
>IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and eCommerce
>software and consulting services.
>
>http://www.patownsend.com

PDFingMailer Home Page: http://www.PDFing.com
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