Re: Merging PDFs

OK - one last try and then I’ll just give up.

I know _how_ to do it.

I’m trying to avoid the potential support issues in a wide variety of environments over which I have no control. Adding additional complexity and fragility for no other purpose than merging two PDFs just seems to me to be a poor return on investment. If we needed _any_ other capability than merge it would probably be worth the effort - but we don’t.

It may be we’ll end up having to bite the bullet - but I want to at least try and avoid it.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jon

I think that you have misunderstand JAVA a little - I have my own apache POI
version running under powerEXT and sets it with class path

// Add classpath
qcmd('ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(CLASSPATH) VALUE(''.'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-contrib-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-examples-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-ooxml-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/poi-scratchpad-3.6-20091214.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/dom4j-1.6.1.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/jsr173_1.0_api.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/poi-3.6/xbean.jar'
+':/powerEXT/core/poi/xlparse.jar'
+''') REPLACE(*YES)');

It doesn't interfer with other versions of POI on the box

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How to run any Java is not an issue. We know how to do that.

We are trying to avoid the issues that inevitably arise when you have to
worry about installing a Java app on multiple systems at a wide variety of
release levels - some of which may already have a version of the app
in question on the box. Etc. etc. We already have to install a bunch of
RPG and C code - adding the PDF capability to that would not impact install
- but adding Java will and we’d rather avoid it.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 9, 2014, at 4:03 AM, D*B <dieter.bender@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... PDFBox and PDFSam are Java open source and they have very easy to

use commandline utilities, you could use without writing any java (or
embedded Java in RPG). If you use the command RUNJAVARUN (it's part of Open
Source CommandGate, the little sister of ArdGate) you would have no
classpath issues and the merge of 2 PDFs will be very fast (subsecond) and
scalable. From the native Perspective you would simply use the Command
RUNJAVARUN.

D*B
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