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  3. May 2003

RE: Using OO concepts in RPG

On Mon, 12 May 2003, James Rich wrote:
>
> How about making printer files compilable to postscript or PDF?  For
> example, you could have *SCS, *AFPDS, *PDF, and *PS.  It wouldn't require
> any changes to RPG.  Let the AS/400 spooling system handle the things.
>

Is that different from Host Print Transform?

With HPT, you output the file as AFPDS when your program runs, that allows
the ability to view the spooled file to be standard (it doesn't need to
understand every possible format) and then when it sends to the printer,
it transforms to the language of the printer it's being sent to.

Of course, IBM doesn't support PostScript in HPT... but they support PCL
and other languages that printers speak.  Maybe if we beat up the right
people, they'll add PostScript support.

And, I believe, with InfoPrint server you can also do PDF.

But, it seems like this is exactly what you're asking for?

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