RE: Printing tumbnail images in a PRTF

<vendor response>
Doug

 We have an electronic forms package that can give you the desired results. It 
can use your existing JPEG thumbnails. I just asked our resident expert, who 
showed me an example of an invoice with a product image and packing diagram 
printed dynamically based on content in the report. No AFP stuff to fight with 
at all. And you don't need to change anything in your iSeries applications - 
unless you need to add some reference to an image, of course.

If interested, please call us (RJS Software) at 888.RJS.SOFT or email 
sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and ask for information about our eForms package.
</vendor response>

Regards
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Dean Hoffman" <dhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

I did this very same thing a few years ago (with 2 page segments). I set 
up a CL that goes out (runrmtcmd) and creates an AFP from a JPG. (this is 
done by a 'Client Access' command jpeg2afp) Then you create a physical 
file and put the AFP file into it (FTP), then run iSeries command CRTPAGSEG 
to create the page segment. If you are interested in seeing this send me a 
email offline. This process was done on a 720 and ran pretty well 
(performance wise) 

That being said, I have heard (but didn't actually try it) that as of V5R3 
you can put a JPEG right into DDS without going through all this as long as 
the JPEG is on the IFS. I would definitely look into that before going the 
route I did above. 

Good Luck 

Dean Hoffman 
Quaker City Paper Co. 
dhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 



-----Original Message----- 
From: midrange-l-bounces+dhoffman=quakercitypaper.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+dhoffman=quakercitypaper.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Douglas Handy 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:10 PM 
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Printing tumbnail images in a PRTF 

I was asked the feasibility of adding b&w thumbnail images of each product 
to customer invoices. I've never had the need to print images from DDS in 
the past, so this is new territory for me. 

It would appear that I need to take the existing jpeg thumbnails and 
transform them using a PC program to AFP "page segments", then transfer 
those to the iSeries. Then in the PRTF, use the PAGSEG() to place them on 
the page. Is this correct? Or is there another method? 

The DDS manual also states "A maximum of 10 page segments can be used per 
page." Huh? Does that mean I could not have more than 10 thumbnails appear 
on a page? Ouch. 

And then I'd have to convert all the record format space/skip before/after 
values to use POSITION() instead? 

Currently the print file is *IPDS, but it would have to become *AFPDS and 
they would need to license PSF/400 too in order to print these. Correct? 
What is the cost of PSF/400 for a P05 sized 270? 

Does this become very resource intensive on the 270? 

Doug 
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