Re: email from system i - pdf in email body

Jim,

There are some tools that can execute a PDF to HTML conversion from a
(Windows) command line. I found a (non-free) app here:
http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-Doc/Features/Convert-PDF-to-HTML.htm

If you can write a small program in your Windows Server that monitors an IBM
i shared folder (I think this company has also a .DLL version), you could do
something like this:

1) Copy your PDF to the shared i folder.
2) Your Windows monitoring program "sees" that there is a new file in the
folder and converts it to HTML.
3) Have an IFS monitoring program in your IBM i (see easy400's MONIFS) check
if there is a new HTML file created.and send it.

The ideal, of course, would be to have a PASE program do the conversion for
you. That way, you could do everything from inside your IBM i. Google
around, maybe someone has already done something like you need.

Regards,

<http://www.softinterface.com/PDFX/Convert-PDF-To-Text-Component.HTM>
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:03 AM, <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some further research indicates I would have to convert the pdf to html,
and Adobe has such a tool.
Probably makes automating this difficult to impossible.
Thanks
Jim Franz



---- Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim,

AFAIK, PDF files will always show as an attachment. That said, the (open
source) MMAIL routines (www.easy400.net) allow you to specify if the

data

will be part of the message or will be sent as an attached file.

HTH,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I've been asked to email a newsletter (pdf) in the email body,
not as an attachment.
I know how to send html within email text, but not pdf.
Has anyone tried or done this? Needs to run automated.
Currently using RPGMail to send.
Jim Franz
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