RE: Generating PDF documents through RPG

I write the data to be presented to an xml document, then simply write a
few lines of RPGLE to compile the FOP class from Apache into an RPGLE
pgm. FOP will automatically generate a PDF document taking the name of
an FOP-XSL stylesheet as a parameter. This essentially gives you a
utility for generating PDF's from any given xml,xsl combination.
Then, providing you know how to code an FOP-XSL stylesheet, you set
about the task of coding just how you want the PDF to look, including
colors, higlighting, images, borders, page numbers, header and footers
etc, unrestrained by the limitations of spooled file format. An FOP-XSL
stylesheet can be manually derived directly from any regular XSL
stylesheet that might be used to present xml data data using HTML
tables.

Peter   

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jose Santana
Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 7:12 a.m.
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Generating PDF documents through RPG

I use a free utility called MMAIL:  http://www-922.ibm.com/mmail/start
If your RPG program writes to a spool file you can use a command
CVTSPLFPDF that converts the given spool file into a pdf file and places
it in a specified path in the ifs.

Jose

praveen gunda wrote:

Hi all,
Need to know if there are any apis' that can be used to develop PDF 
based reports using RPGLE?
I would greatly appreciate any information.
 

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