Re: AFPU (was RE: Free form for a printer and o specs)

Thank you Vern, from all the responses I see that AFPU is the one going
away, but the i will still support AFP printing.

With the samples provided by Jim I see that it is not very hard to do a
nice looking document.  With an OVRPRTF in the RPG program before
opening the printer file I get the output directly in the IFS, in PDF
format, ready to attach to an email.

On 7/26/19 9:17 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Hi Justin

Fuzzy indeed - I think the HS article is kind of marketing FUDdy (they
are selling pretty-good Java-based reporting tools that can run on the
i, after all) - AFP Utilities is no longer supported after 7.2, but
AFP itself is not going away. Is it as convenient to use it? Maybe
not, so far as creating resources is concerned. There is now, since
maybe 5.4, a PRTF keyword, AFPRSC, that lets us use IFS image files to
put images on SPLF output - it generally works really well, but
support in Host Print Transform come out only in 7.2 - but only in
HP-compatible manufacture/model setups. The TIFF Host Print Transform
does NOT support the AFPRSC keyword at this time - problematic for
vendor product that use the TIFF *WSCST to convert SPLFs to TIFF, then
create PDFs - I think most of the products that convert to PDF are in
this state.

CPYSPLF now gives very effective conversions to PDF - and there are
PSF facilities, as I am told, and haven't yet worked with.

The IBM article mentions other products that can work with AFP - I
don't think any of them are native to IBM i, and we certainly do not
want to utilize yet another Windows server (YAWS) to convert images to
AFP source with the driver or to run another application.

Regards
Vern

On 7/25/2019 12:09 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:

That's kind of fuzzy.
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022140



-----Original Message-----
From: Raul Jager [mailto:raul@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 11:36 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Free form for a printer and o specs

PRTF can print beautiful reports, but the manual DDS for printer
files has no new features since 7.2, output specs for printer have no
free version, Does that means they are being replaced?

Printer files with overlays are great for existing application Are
they a good option for new apps?

Is this FUD?
https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/3-step-guide-replacing-afp-utilities

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