Re: Creating PDF

["Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

$230?  For ONE! utility! That's insane!  You can buy the entire Adobe
Acrobat software suite, which comes with a free SDK so that you can write
your own code, AND you have access to all the other tools that are part of
Adobe, for $249.

I fail to see how it's cheaper to buy Brad's tool (sorry Brad...but you
could lower the  price of your software) when with just a little bit of
effort you could roll your own.

Beyond that, there are the Java API's to create PDF files which are
ridicuosly simple to use.  Joe Pluta and Don Denoncourt wrote a utility many
moons ago to demonstrate this and I think Joe may still have it available on
his website.

$230 for one utility.  Hmm...maybe I should stop writing free articles about
how to build your own software and just start charging people for it
too....:-)


Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shrader, Patrick" <pshrader@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: RE: Creating PDF


> Brad Stone's program costs only $230, and you are done today. I've used it
> for several years to do exactly what you are trying to do and I had an
> automated PDF and FTP program running in an afternoon. I doubt you will
code
> it internally cheaper.
>
> http://www.bvstools.com/spltool.html
>
> Patrick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard [mailto:rvoss@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:56 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Creating PDF
>
>
> I have two questions
>
> 1)       Is there an API furnished with OS400 that allows me to convert
> an SCS spooled files to PDF
>
> 2)       Is there an API furnished with OS400 that allows me to create a
> PDF file from within an RPG program
>
> I would like to convert a spooled file to PDF and put the PDF file on our
> server. I can either convert an existing SCS spooled file or copy the SCS
> spooled file into a database file and reprocess it outputting PDF file
>
> I know there are many vendors out there that do this but I am not
interested
> in purchasing a 3rd party product if I can accomplish the same thing using
> OS400
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions
>
>
> Richard
>
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