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Re: DIY mark-up to PDF

Justin,
So, if the Windows team created this format, is there a process already in place that runs uner Windows to convert this to a .pdf?  If so, why not just use e.g. STRPCCMD to run that from the IBM i side?   e.g. place the file in the IFS on a QNTFS file system, or use NFS, etc., to make the file accessible to Windows, and then run a command to convert it?

Mark S. Waterbury

On Friday, March 8, 2019, 1:09:25 PM EST, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm afraid the input/output format is fixed and cannot be altered.

The input format is immutable.  The output must be PDF so it can be merged with other PDF files.  The process runs as a service, with no direct user interaction.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Waterbury [mailto:mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2019 10:38 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DIY mark-up to PDF

Justin,
How about using an industry standard like HTML ...  HTML can do colors and fonts, etc.?
Then just open the document in any browser, and print to .PDF ...?  There are also any number of "libraries" of javascript, or for .NET, etc. to do this -- do a google search for "html to pdf" ...

HTH ...
Mark S. Waterbury


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