I've used Gumbo Software's Spoolamatic to convert AFPDS to PDF for 20 years
with no problems, never had an offset issue - no need for human
clicking..just a command in your clp. Then email command (they have that too
if needed). Just a happy customer. However, if your print is customized to a
printer feature outside of the IBM i - that could be an issue.
Jim Franz
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Subject: AFP spool file output offset when saved as PDF
Hello all,
Wanted to run this past the group and see if anyone has a solution. We have
a situation where a user prints a spool file to a printer/copier in our
office. This is an AFP spool file with an overlay. It prints just fine.
When this user wants to send this out via email to someone, they simply
print it on the copier/printer and then scan it and email it through the
functionality of the copier. This user will now need to have the ability to
send these out to folks from a remote location. If we set the user up with
using iSeries Navigator to do it (with a shortcut to their printed output on
their desktop, where they right-click on the output and select "Convert to
PDF"), the printed output in the PDF is offset such that it looks
misaligned. The printer file is currently defined with offsets included in
the DDS specs. Right now our company still uses iSeries Access, and I was
thinking that we could get around this problem using ACS, but I tested it
through the "printed output" func tionality of ACS and got similar results
to what I saw using Navigator.
Are there any general things we can try to fix this issue? Maybe using
WSCST objects in some way? Basically we're just trying to get a PDF version
of an AFP document to look the same as the printed version. Not sure there
is one tried-and-true way to do this but thought I'd throw it out to the
group. Any information is, as always, appreciated!
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