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RE: Append AFPDS files

Be aware that contrary to what a lot of people believe, iText is not free. It is a licensed product. I believe there is something about being free for personal use but definitely not corporate use.

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Eddie Gomez
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:02 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Append AFPDS files

Have you looked into ConcatPDF? You have to load the itext5.jar java package into your IFS, compile the CONCATPDF CLLE program and command and you’re good to go. Allows you to merge to .PDF’s on the IFS and give that merged ,pdf file a new name.

On Dec 13, 2018, at 9:32 AM, Barb Hines <BHines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's third party software and they generate two spool files for the document, we don't own the source. I was looking for a quick solution without having to re-write a bunch of code...

Barbara Hines
Allied Machine & Engineering
330.343.4283 Ext. 8251
-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Charles
Wilt
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 12:13 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Append AFPDS files

Brad answered your question...

But why do you do two overlays? If you generate the spool file as AFPDS, you could assign a different overlay for every page in the single spool file.

Charles

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:24 AM Barb Hines <BHines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello group,

I'm having issues with merging spool files that are being sent to the IFS.

Two AFPDS spool files with overlays are created for our commercial
invoice, a header page and continuation pages. I'm copying them to a
directory as .pdf files.

Here is the command I'm using for each file:

CPYSPLF FILE(spoolfileX) TOFILE(*TOSTMF) +
JOB(12345/xxxxxxx/QPADEV0001) +
SPLNBR(000001) JOBSYSNAME(xxxxxx) +
TOSTMF('/myfolder/splf.PDF') +
WSCST(*PDF) STMFOPT(*NONE) OPNSPLF(*YES)

I run the ftp append command with "namefmt 1".

The files appear to append, the size increases as expected.

The problem is, when I open them in acrobat, I only see the first page.
What am I missing? Should I be using a different command to merge them?

Thank you,

Barbara Hines

[Allied Machine & Engineering]<http://www.alliedmachine.com/>


Barbara Hines

[Allied Machine & Engineering]<http://www.alliedmachine.com/>

Phone: 330.343.4283 Ext. 8251
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