RE: PDF Limitations?

Another one is CVTSPLSTMF from Ariadne Software

http://www.ariadnesoftware.com/

I didn't think Brad's AFPTOOL converted to graphics.

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: PDF Limitations?
> 
> 
> On 4/14/05, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I guess I should have read the fine print.  I believe that 
> they both have
> > an intermediate step that converts the spool file to a 
> .tiff image.  I
> > wonder if that's due to overlays or other characteristics 
> of AFPDS spool
> > files.  Maybe that's why the conversion programs that I've 
> seen so far tend
> > to differentiate between SCS and AFPDS.  I'm trying the 
> CVTSPLSTMF from
> > MMAIL right now and it's been chugging away for a few minutes.
> 
> as I understand it, most but not all as400 pdf tools go the route of
> having the as400 api convert the spooled file to a tiff image, then
> the tiff image is stored in the pdf file.  There are two problems with
> the tiff image approach.  First, it makes the resulting pdf file
> larger than otherwise. ( important when emailing the document ) 
> Second, I doubt the end user can search the document for text and it
> probably does not scale very well when they view it.
> 
> Gumbo software is the only as400 vendor I know of that creates the pdf
> file directly from the text contents of the spooled file.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> > 
> > What about Infoprint Server?  Does anybody know if it has a 
> limit on AFPDS
> > printer files?
> > 
> > 
> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN  46571
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
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> > I dunno about AFPTOOl, but CVTSPLFPDF says it supports up 
> to 2 pages...
> > 
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: PDF Limitations?
> > > From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Thu, April 14, 2005 12:41 pm
> > > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Since PDF's seem to be the topic of the day...
> > >
> > > Is there a size limit to PDF's?  I've been giving trial 
> runs to AFPTOOL
> > by
> > > Brad Stone and CVTSPLFPDF from MMAIL at 
http://www-922.ibm.com/.  They
> both
> > seem to do a good job but they both had problems when I tried to convert
> a
> > spool file that was 8660 pages.  Was that too much?  I've only done a
> > minimal amount of testing so it could be my fault.  Granted, most reports
> > that we would be interested in converting wouldn't be nearly that big but
> I
> > thought that I'd try this since our accounting department runs some large
> > year-end reports that they want to keep until the end of time.
> >
> >
> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN  46571
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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