RE: Copying PDF files generated on the 400 to Linux

Scott,
Thanks for your reply, we my replies below

> We have been converting our reports to PDF on the AS/400
and
> placing them either in the IFS or onto a NT file server
> using CPYTOSTMF.

I'm surprised to hear that you're using CPYTOSTMF. Are the
original 
PDF documents in physical files?  
[Reply>] Yes they are in PDF Files, that is why we use
CPYTOSTMF

If not, what type of object are they 
stored in?

I would've assumed that they were originally in the IFS (in
which case, 
using CPYTOSTMF would make no sense)


> When we open these files (on the Linux box) using Windows
> explorer they open fine.

Windows explorer can't read PDFs. Do you mean that you're
using Windows 
explorer to open Acrobat Reader?
[Reply>] You are correct we are using Adobe Reader from
Windows Explorer

> When we try to open these files (on the Linux box) from a
> web browser we get an adobe error "File damaged cannot be
> opened.."

What happens if you try opening them directly with Acrobat
Reader (or are you using xPDF? or GhostView? or...?)
[Reply>] We are using Adobe Reader 

> If we create the files in the IFS and copy them to the
Linux
> box they open fine from the Web Browser.

Have you looked to see what's different when they're created
in the IFS 
and then copied instead of (whatever the alternative is?)

In other words, have you looked at the contents of the files
to see what's 
being changed?
[Reply>] This is what I am doing next, I have visually
glanced through the documents to make sure the characters
 [ and ] were OK (Depending on the code pages I have seen
these not translate) but they were OK. I will have to
compare the files byte by byte next but this can be time
consuming

I'm very suspcious of CPYTOSTMF, since that program is
really designed for 
copying text. PDF files are not purely text, they contain
binary data. You 
should therefore not ever do character translations, unless
there's 
something weird about the way you're creating them that
accounts for why 
you'd have to translate them.

But then, PDF documents are stream files, so I don't see how
they could be 
stored in a PF in the first place, so I'm a little lost.
[Reply>] The process is the program that creates the PDF is
creating them in a physical file then CPYTOSTMF is used to
place them in the IFS or QNTC etc.
I know the program could be changed to write directly to the
stream file, but it is already done and I did not want to
re-write that process


>
> Someone else says it could be an authority issue when a
file
> is placed on the Linux there are more authorities then on
> the iSeries

No, it's the other way around, the iSeries has more
authorities.  I don't 
see how this could be an authority issue.  If it were, the
problem 
wouldn't be that the document is corrupt, the problem would
be that you 
can't write the document or that you can't read it.
[Reply>] I thought the same

How are you mounting the Linux drive?  via NFS?  SMB?  some
other way?
[Reply>] AS400 is exporting a directory via NFS and is being
mounted on the Linux machine