Re: How do I create a PDF with embedded links?

Hi Paul

I did some testing of iPDF, and it should fit the bill for our needs now - and it is built on iText, so all of that functionality is there.

iPDF has a service program that does Java method calls to its Java class, and the procedures there can be called directly. Or one can use their CREATEIPDF command that has a lot of options.

Do you do method calls out of RPG to iText for everything, or did someone write a Java class for things you need, to minimize the method calls from RPG?

Regards
Vern

On 3/21/2016 6:12 PM, Paul Roy wrote:

We are using extensively iText to manipulate pdf and it is a great tool .
(extract text data, generate pdf from images, merge and split pdf, etc...)

The only limitation that we have found is that it is not compatible with
IFS journaling... (or at least I could not find a way to have it working
in this situation)...

Paul




From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22/03/2016 00:03
Subject: Re: How do I create a PDF with embedded links?
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Hi Tom

I'm starting to look at a thing calling iPDF - it's based on iText, but
it has a command front end or procedure calls, looks promising for
images, I didn't see anything obvious for URLs.

Regards
Vern

On 3/21/2016 4:00 PM, Tom wrote:

I looked at iText a few days ago - it was bit beyond my rudimentary Java
skills.


Thanks,
Tom
iDocket.com

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Subject: Re: How do I create a PDF with embedded links?

Hi Tom

I'm looking at a somewhat-related issue - inserting PNG signatures into

an

existing PDF created using one of the techniques, such as OVRPRTF or

MMAIL's

commands.

I'm looking at iText, a Java PDF library. I saw some examples of

embedding a

link using that library.

There were also examples of putting an image where I want it and resize

and

all.

It'd probably require some Java chops to make something callable from

RPG

without doing a zagillion method calls out of RPG.

HTH
Vern

On 3/21/2016 11:00 AM, Tom wrote:

(system V6r1m1)



I have a program which creates PDFs from a qsysprt override, it's been
working well for weeks. Client now wants to include within the
generated PDF some links to various webpages on their webserver. The
link is to look something like 'AB-CC-00001', and when the user clicks
the link a webpage opens at the referenced page.



I'm fairly certain that what I'm doing now (override qsysprt to pdf)
will not get the job done, and that I'll need some other utility.



Some recommendations?



Thanks,

TomH

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