Re: Pretty printing from the iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

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That's true. But IBM has provided a number of these tools - AFP Utilities, Advanced Print Utility, Page Printer Formatting Aid. Some are end-user tools. IIRC, the interfaces were green-screen, not true WYSIWYG, for some.

I've always been frustrated by the apparent lack of support for AFP printing on the 400. Most of the info is directed toward mainframes. And if the AFP Viewer (version we get with iSeries Access) is any indication, I understand why these things haven't done really well - the Viewer is an awkward tool, in my experience.

It looks like InfoPrint Server has some promise - haven't had time to look at ti yet, much.

Vern

At 02:46 AM 5/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:

I use AFP toolbox but keep in mind that it provides only
the primitive functions. You are supposed to develope some
higher tool to provide easier use of it.

Marco
--- Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Pretty printing has been around for a long time, in the
> various AFP
> Utilities and other related products. But who has bought
> them? Perhaps
> something really good but before its time, maybe too much
> like GDDM? Why
> did none of us buy these products?
>
> Vern
>

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