Re: Distilling postscript files

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is not too bad, Edouard, but there is not much handholding 
available cuz you are in a Unix world here. You might look in the 
archives here - there was a brief discussion of this recently.

First you need to install ghostscript or whatever in PASE - the AIX 
binaries are available at a public domain site 
http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu - there are a couple important tabs - 
one is labeled "Executable Info" - gives you commands for installing 
the packages. The other is "FAQ" - not much there.

You want to find out which version of AIX you have - that depends on 
the version of OS/400 - there are charts in the PASE section at 
InfoCenter. Because we support multiple releases, I download a pretty 
early version.

ghostscript is listed under text utilities, but you also want the 
ghostscript fonts - there are 2 sets under fonts. For working with 
PDFs, I think it is a good idea to get the TrueType fonts on the 
iSeries - you actually can use the ones you have in Windows, just 
copy them to the IFS. And there are some with various products on iSeries.

Hope this gives you a beginning - running things in PASE from CL 
involves the use ot eh QP2SHELL or QP2SHELL2 command - the latter is 
not available in earlier releases. You will want to look at the 
iSeries PASE documentation - under Shells under Programming in 
InfoCenter, IIRC. This gives you iSeries help for talking to PASE - 
the actual AIX stuff you have to get from IBM's AIX InfoCenter.

At 06:43 AM 11/22/2006, you wrote:

> I would like to do so but it would be the first experience with PASE 
> and Inter Environment Communication with us.
> Is there somewehere handy documentation or handholding available to 
> make it work??
>
> Just a wish....
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:37:26 PM
> Subject: RE: Distilling postscript files
>
>
> Dan,
>
> Perhaps you should just load Ghostscript to your iSeries PASE and 
> use it natively on OS400....
>
> Just a thought...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Distilling postscript files
>
>
> (Cross-posted to Midrange-L and PCtech-L
>
> I'm not really sure how appropriate the subject line is.  We use a software
> package (DOC1) that generates postscript files on the 400.  I have no
> control over the DOC1 process, I have access only to the final produced
> postscript files.  One of our group's responsibilities is to produce PDF
> samples of each unique form, and a single postscript file will contain
> hundreds of pages with the different forms.  Currently, we are downloading
> the postscript files to the PC and using Ghostview/GSView to look at the
> output and generate the PDF forms.  It is an extremely labor intensive
> process to produce 40-50 PDF samples and we're thinking that there simply
> must be a better way.  Each PDF sample we produce has a name given it that
> could be extracted from the front and back of the page we are trying to
> convert.  In fact, I just tried the Text Extract function of Ghostview and
> see that I could concatenate the first line of text (the form's title) to
> the last line of text (the form ID) to generate the file name I need.
> Because there will be duplicates generated in this naming scheme, I would
> like to append a sequence number at the end of the name.  Easiest net
> result, if there are 300 pages in the postscript file, I want to produce 150
> PDF files, each file a front and back page.
>
> I thought something called Acrobat Distiller might be worth looking into,
> but it appears to be an obsolete product from 7 or 8 years ago.  We are
> willing to look at freeware, shareware, and commercial apps.
>
> TIA,
> Dan
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