Would it be feasible to just create a spool file programmatically and convert that to PDF?
Doing a merge is simple with %scanrpl(). Making a PDF from a spool file, or even directly from RPG, is also simple.
Or, is .DOC(x) a mandatory requirement as well?
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jim Franz
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2023 11:56 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: AFPDS fonts and spool converted to pdf
and a second question/option - it has been asked what it would take to put
a win server on the network that generated a word doc in real time, (some
sort of substitution/merge of data to fill out the doc, and passed it back
to ibm i. No such infrastructure like that exists, this is currently all on
i, and many hundreds of docs per day.. Need a hands-free simple
solution, and most likely the customer could choose the .pdf or .doc
Jim
On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 2:26 PM Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Creating one page afpds spooled files, then converted to pdf to email or
download from website.
The fonts have to be typographic.
Problem is there is a limited set of fonts in Adobe Reader, a limited set
in the IBM font collection,,and appears helvetica and times roman are on
both, but some customers take doc into Word to edit, and prefer Microsoft's
default Tahoma. The pdf converter used will support embedding the font used
in AFPDS - is there a way to install Tahoma on the i?
Jim Franz
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