Re: PDF Limitations?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure how inforprint does it.  Most AFPDS to PDF
converters do the spooled file to TIFF to PDF conversion.
 There are ways to do it so it isn't a raster image, but
its a quite expensive (time and money) proposition with all
that is involved.  Trust me, I've looked into it.  :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:33:07 -0500
 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> 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.
> 
> 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
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> > Since PDF's seem to be the topic of the day...
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> > 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.
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> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN  46571
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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