Re: Creating AFP overlays

As a vendor solution and alternative to AFPDS, our SPLTOOL product will
convert your spooled file to PDF and allow you to merge an overlay (in PDF
form) with the output.

The overlay can be created using anything (Word, Open Office, etc), and
then converted to PDF using something as simple as PrimoPDF (which is a
virtual PDF printer driver). Then upload it to your IFS and tell SPLTOOL
when it converts your spooled file to use your overlay.

The positives to this over AFPDS are color forms/overlays, easy overlay
creation with simple/free tools. Printable on any printer (since it's a
PDF), can be put online, emailed, etc.

The downsides are since the "report data" spooled file should be in SCS
format the font can't be changed (well, it can be Courier New or Times, but
Times doesn't work well for columnar reports).

The PDF file is also text searchable when done.

Free trials are always available.. http://www.bvstools.com/spltool.html.

Just thought I'd throw that out there. I've had a few customers tell me
they like that option a lot better than messing with AFPDS. IT was
actually a request from a customer a few years ago that's really caught on
with others.

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:01 PM, franz400 <franz400@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I've used several tools for creating overlays - InfoPrint Designer (an
ancient thing), and several win tools (Word, MS Paint, Adobe PDF,
PhotoShop...any tool that will create a .jpg /.gif / .pdf, etc) along with
the iNavigator AFP tools to upload to the system or the old manual method.

Your mention of 5722-AF1 sunset is ONLY because that is a V5R4 product.
In V6 it is 5761-AF1
in V7 it is 5770-AF1

Jim Franz


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cunningham" <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:08 PM
Subject: Creating AFP overlays

What are people using to create an overlay to use with AFP? Is Infoprint
Designer still the only IBM option? It was very expensive the last time
we looked considering we maybe have 6 forms we could convert to a PDF.

The

two we have done were created using Word and the AFP print driver from
IBM, then uploaded to the IFS and converted. (then test print and start
all over again)

Is anyone using this

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=DD&subtype=SM&htmlfid=877/ENUS5722-AF1&appname=printers

(I see this is about to be removed from support)

Mike Cunningham
VP of Information Technology Services/CIO
Pennsylvania College of Technology


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