RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

Thanks for your reply Greg
A coworker has also been looking into this at the same time
She believes it is because of how the print file is created, along with the OVRPRTF's
What Linda discovered was that the OVRPRTF

OVRPRTF FILE(INVOICE) TOFILE(NBINV) OUTQ(WP10)
FRONTOVL(INVOVL01) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS)

Needed to be changed to

OVRPRTF FILE(INVOICE) TOFILE(NBINV) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) +
PAGESIZE(66 85) FONT(*CPI) +
FRONTOVL(INVOVL01) OUTQ(WP10)

Notice the FONT
The print files that were being created had *DEVD, and Linda surmised that CPYSPLF does not know how to translate that, which makes sense as we can now create the pdf files with the printing NOT mushed over to the left
It may require some extra fine tuning in some cases (on one print file, the overlay seems to be truncated/cut off on the right hand side
But I believe we are getting somewhere

Alan Shore
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Phone [O] : (631) 200-5019
Phone [C] : (631) 880-8640
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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

Alan,

Is your output defined inside the program (O-specs) or externally described via a DDS printer file? If external via DDS, do you know how it was created (CRTPRTF)?

I ask because the "starting position" is dependent upon how it was created. It's been years, but maybe the FRONTMGN keyword?

In any case, I had the same issue with several of our printer files and the associated page segments embedded within. They printed just fine on laser printers, but the lines, logos, barcodes were all shifted when converted to PDF ( quarter inch down, quarter inch to the right). That corresponds to the non-printable area on laser printers.

I think I added the FRONTMGN(0 0) to the PRTF when compiling. It had no effect on the printed copy, but fixed the PDF.

HTH
Greg

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Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

Hi Rob
Understandable
I was hoping that CPYSPLF to create a pdf that can be e-mailed directly from the AS/400 would have been my simple, quick answer to what the users are requesting Unfortunately - it seems that I am wrong

Alan Shore
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Overlays are a fickle item. They often have to be customized based on printer, etc. One of the reasons we told all trading partners we were obsoleting fax was we were tired of customizing forms multiple times for different output.

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Hi
I think that I am STILL missing something I went through and used WCST parameter, using ALL of them I didn’t see ANY differences between ANY of them So – I was thinking that it might have been because I was replacing an existing ifs file, so I changed it so that each of my runs created a new ifs file, and THAT was the file I sent to myself They STILL looked all the same The print character moved over to the left

Anyone any ideas?

Alan Shore
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From: Alan Shore
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To: Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>; Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

Thanks Bryan
Believe it or not – Marco mention the translate tables – but for V7r2, so I was JUST wondering if there was anything different for V7r3 Appreciated

Alan Shore
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From: Bryan Dietz [mailto:bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx]
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Cc: Alan Shore <ashore@xxxxxxxx<mailto:ashore@xxxxxxxx>>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

More info on different WSCST objects here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzalu/rzaluwscstpara.htm

Bryan

On Apr 29, 2020, at 6:40 AM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Thanks Marco
I didn't think that I would need to do that Just specify *PDF Let me give it a shot I just suppose that it will be trial and error MUCH appreciated



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From: Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>>
Date: 4/29/20 06:36 (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Trying to use CPYSPLF to create a PDF

Hi Alan another option is doing some tests using one of the transform objects in qsys (V7R2):

QCTXPDF
QCTXPDFMBD
QCTXPDFMB2
QCTXPDFWT
QCTXPDFWT2
QCTXPDF2

Eg:

CPYSPLF FILE(MYSPOOL)
TOFILE(*TOSTMF)
TOSTMF('/tmp/testpdf.pdf')
WSCST(*LIBL/QCTXPDF2)
STMFOPT(*REPLACE)

HTH
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Il giorno mar 28 apr 2020 alle ore 19:54 Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L < midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> ha scritto:

Hi everyone
We are on V7r3
I have been asked to look into creating and e-mailing our invoices as pdf's from the AS/400

I already knew about the changes to CPYSPLF, so I thought that I would look into that The command I used was

CPYSPLF FILE(INVOICE) TOFILE(*TOSTMF) JOB(192813/CREDSALE36/JKEITTB)
TOSTMF('/ashore/invoice.pdf') WSCST(*PDF) STMFOPT(*REPLACE)

The INVOICE spool file has an overlay

I then used this command to e-mail it to myself

SNDSMTPEMM RCP(('ashore@xxxxxxxx<mailto:ashore@xxxxxxxx>')) SUBJECT('Sending a pdf file')
ATTACH(('/ashore/invoice.pdf'))

When I received the e-mail, the overlay was there, but the characters
(print) were not where it should be - in the boxes The characters were "pushed" to the left

I googled CPYSPLF and came across this web page https://www.rpgpgm.com/2014/03/creating-pdf-files-from-spool-files.html

and I checked the ptf's mentioned
Both of the ptf's mentioned there are on our system
5770TS1 *COMPATIBLE IBM Transform Services for i
5770TS1 *COMPATIBLE Transforms - AFP to PDF Transform

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I did wrong or is missing?
As always, all answers gratefully accepted

Alan Shore
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