Re: Adobe Printer files

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx]

Maybe RJS' products would work here. I've used them,
good stuff. Look at <www.rjssoft.com>. They do their own
conversion.
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> Vernon,
>
> What I was trying to do was create a pdf file in the ifs from a spool
> file, and then perform some action on the pdf file from the program which
> generated that spool file.
>
> However the way Infoprint server seems to work is you create a writer and
> attach their config to this.  It generates the pdf file, and if you
> requested it, will log something into a data queue.  But it does this as a
> background task and not under the control of the program which generates
> the spool file.
>
> I've come up with a couple of alternatives.
> 1)  When I move the spool file off to the writer give it x seconds and
> then try to access the pdf file it generates.  Sample pdf file that this
> generates is:
> /robpdf/ROBS1/ROB/989759_000005_QSYSPRT_07182002_000001.PDF
> which is
> yourdir/jobname/username/jobnbr_splfilenbr_splfilename_date_someseq#.PDF
> Hey, IBM came up with this format, I didn't.  You cannot change it.  The
> sequence number normally stays at one, unless you are using specific DDS
> keywords or some such thing.
>
> 2)  Figure out how to use the data queue.  However no map of the data
> queue is given.  I have created a data queue and analyzed the results.
> However I don't want to get bitten on release upgrades, etc, and I want an
> official IBM map of this data queue.  They don't even tell us how big to
> make it.  (I made it too small the first time.)
>
> Rob Berendt
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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> InfoPrint Server has this builtin - check out the user
> Guide at
> <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/boo
> ks/isag0mst.pdf>. There is a chapter on IPDS to PDF
> transform.
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> > Is there a way, using Infoprint Server, or any other "IBM Supplied"
> > utility to convert a spool file into a pdf file within the IFS?
> >
> > We got Infoprint server.  And we can send spool files out as email.  But
> > using the server to generate email with the attachment, along with some
> > text, seems to be a little tricky.
> >
> > Rob Berendt
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> > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> > Benjamin Franklin
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