Re: Creating PDF

["Paul Nelson" <pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When you need to pound a nail, do you make your own hammers, too? Calculate
((your annual salary/2080)*1.35))*(hours to write the code), I think that
you will see that $230 is cheap. I use 35% as a reasonable burden rate that
includes employer taxes, insurance, rent, utilities, etc.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Creating PDF


> $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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