RE: How to display a spooled file from an application window.

Software to convert sply to pdf is becomming quite common these days. I know that one of the third party packages we have for FTP includes a command called ZSNDEMSPLF that converts spool output to pdf, then attaches to email. For that matter, I still have an ancient copy of Joe Pluta's freeware CPYSPLFPDF that still works for me on V5R3.....

Eric

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You would need some software to do the conversion to PDF. Most third
party packages have a command interface to convert spooled files, so
you could have a CL program that invokes the program that creates the
spooled file, and then converts the spooled file to PDF. You could
then put it on a server someplace, or put it on the IFS on a mapped
drive. The user could use Acrobat Reader at their leisure to open it.
Or, you could use RUNRMTCMD to invoke the reader on the user's PC.

On Dec 12, 2007 7:38 PM, <jwallroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I like the idea of it popping up as a PDF. How would you go about having
it transformed into a PDF for the user without using a 3rd party
application that scans for spool files in a certain outputq? and how easy
would it be to call up the PDF viewer and pass it the correct PDF to
display? I'm aware of the ability to run a PC command from a green screen
session, just not the details in this particular instance.

John C. Wallroff
(402) 471-3035
jwallroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




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That's true. IBM never made that what it could have been I think.

On Dec 12, 2007 8:16 AM, Wilt, Charles <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Good point....though honestly whenever I've used the AFP viewer, the

output displayed doesn't look

very good.

PDFs on the other hand look very good.

Charles

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I wonder if you could use the AFP Viewer in iSeries Access. Same thing
- you would need the 5250 app start the viewer, but I think that would
work.




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