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This isn't entirely true. Where's Brad, he usually hangs out here?
I think it only converts to TIFF when there are graphics or its and AFPDS.
Otherwise a regular SCS spool file is searchable.
In fact, the suite has SPLTOOL which works with spool files and allows
emailing, MAILTOOL for sending emails, and AFPTOOL for converting AFPDS
files to PDF for emailing/sending/
I looked at several other (more expensive commercial) products and Brad's
was the best bang for the buck. It works very well, and he has always been
very quick to respond to any issues.
Ron Adams
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I'll take a look at it.
The job log from Brad's has the following:
10800 - SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9898) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGDTA('Performing Tiff to
PDF conversion...') TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*STATUS)
It also has a .tiff output option and doesn't find text when I search
search so I'm inclined to say that it does it all as an image. The good
news is that it's billed as an AFPDS-only tool but it doesn't seem to have
a problem with SCS spool files.
Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
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Another one is CVTSPLSTMF from Ariadne Software
http://www.ariadnesoftware.com/
I didn't think Brad's AFPTOOL converted to graphics.
Charles Wilt
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Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Richter
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> 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...
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> > > -------- 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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