Re: PDF Limitations?

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
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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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