Customized Front Page: Spool File to PDF

We have a lot of legacy reports that we convert to PDFs using the InfoPrint Server and then publish to our Intranet.

There is a goal to add a report specific front page to the reports so that when they end up on tablets (e.g., think iPad) it is easier to see which report is which from the icon and/or looking at the front page.

I’m looking for ideas on how to add a customized front page without changing each program.

I don't think we will need any graphics, but probably will need some larger fonts.

Virtually all the programs use O-Specs. We can get control of all the spool files as they get moved from their original OUTQ to the InfoPrint OUTQ.

I have thought of three possible approaches to add a page:

1) Using APIs to duplicate the spool file, inserting a page at the beginning. We’re not talking massive reports, so I don’t think overhead will be an issue.

2) A customized separator page exit. I’ve never done this and I’m not sure how much you can do in such an exit, but it would certainly have to handle varying report widths, CPI and LPI. I’m not sure how this would play with the InfoPrint server, where we already have an exit in place to create a sensible PDF name.

3) Trying to insert a page inside our InfoPrint exit, though I don’t recall seeing anything in the documentation that suggested you could do this.

I’d appreciate any thoughts you have.

Thanks, Sam