RE: TXT to PDF

["Lindstrom, Scott R." <Scott.Lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I am concerned you don't really want to be in the 'create PDF' business.  Let an expert like Brad handle that for you.

Scott Lindstrom

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: TXT to PDF

As far as replacing TXT with PDF in your application pgms..

Current versions of the OS have some built in functionality for converting
spool files to PDF.

You could also look at Brad's Spool Tool,
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__m.bvstools.com_e-2Drpg_softdesc-3Fsoftware-3DSPLTOOL&d=CwICAg&c=_2JymsjkoSdpgdT4DmA4bg&r=-518Ilz5cVhEAzb0mENLKbaCPCUJ_jWIaTTDYAFSng4&m=SqxYwcUyCjts1xMhx6en0j175YIriz7LEA0cvz8AGco&s=MR03LNdZmFAIC8Oz4qNolwjNAaunjvxLA0zNAI9SyGE&e= 

Can't be beat for the price (though it appears he's gone to an annual
subscription vs. one time fee just the current version)

Charles



On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Shouldn't be too difficult to find some Java, Python or PHP code that will
> convert text to PDF.
>
> The problem you're going to have is that without the control codes, you're
> not going to be able to tell where the page and linefeeds generically.
>
> So you're going to end up with basically a text dump or you'd need to
> examine the report and basically hardcode how to convert the text back into
> a "report" with appropriate pages and line spacing.
>
> If it's all one report, the latter isn't a big deal.  If it's 100s of
> reports...well that's not going to be fun unless there's a high amount of
> standardization in the headers and footers.
>
> Charles
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Michael Smith <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I have several TXT files in an IFS directory that I need to convert to
> > PDF.
> >
> > The original source for the TXT file data are "old" spool files that no
> > longer exist on the system.
> >
> > The TXT files do not contain the printer control characters.
> >
> > This is not a one time event, the conversion will have occur "real time"
> > on this files until I have developed a method to replace the TXT file with
> > a PDF file in our application programs.
> >
> > Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this?
> >
> > Michael Smith
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