Make PDF Files from spooled files
Michel Bonnetaud
How I can transform a spooled file to PDF file ? I have SCS spooled
files and also ASCII spooled files.
Bradley V. Stone
For AFP spooled files check out www.bvstools.com/afptool.html
I'm sure other vendors have ASCII converters. But, have you ever
considered creating HTML reports instead of ASCII? You can print,
email, save, etc the data as an HTML file.
Brad
www.bvstools.com
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:53:11 +0200, Michel Bonnetaud <nos...@zobi.com>
wrote:
Michel Bonnetaud
build from merge beetween SCS spooled file and an overlay (product MAPPING
400).
Bent Ronne
I think that you should give BlueSeries a try - no need of extra
hardware at all, it is a native solution. You can convert SCS, AFPDS
or PCL (ASCII) directly into PDF.
BlueSeries can help you sending faxes, emails (as PDF or TIFF) and FTP
directly from your AS/400. If there is no internal modem on your
system you can connect a 7852 model 400 directly to the v.24 cable
(RS232).
You can send any Spooled files directly (SCS, AFP and PCL) or send all
kind of PC prints by use of the PC client. You can convert a SCS
Spooled File into a XML file validated against a DTD and send the XML
file as an email or FTP.
You can find more information on www.blueseries.com
Regards,
Bent Ronne
Agent Data, Denmark
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Richard Schoen
We have converters for converting SCS reports, PCL ASCII reports and
Postscript reports to PDF format.
For more info, check out our web site or contact me directly.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
"The AS/400 Report and Data Delivery Experts"
Email: ric...@rjssoftware.com
Web Site: http://www.rjssoftware.com
"Michel Bonnetaud" <nos...@zobi.com> wrote in message
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Pradip Shah
> I'm looking for ASCII spooled file converter because the spooled file are
> build from merge beetween SCS spooled file and an overlay (product MAPPING
> 400).
Is this overlay in standard graphics - jpeg, gif, bmp - format?
Pradip Shah
www.B2BeDocuments.com
iSeries Report Distribution Systems
PDF, Email, Intranet, Extranet, and the Internet.
Javier Loarte
freeware version (beta version) which I have available at
www.SpoolFactory.com
In addition, with this freeware version you can convert to HTML and
TXT formats.
With professional version, in PDF and HTML formats you can get a good
look and feel of your reports by means of use of color and fonts, and
you can convert to CSV and XML formats.
Regards
Javier Loarte
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filc...@schreiner-group.de
Spools Cooler" (A description you'll find it in the magazins released
in November 2000.) (see Attachment)
Info: To upload it to the iSeries you should use the iSeries News
Upload Programm (www.iseriesnetwork.com)
We using it since a long time, specially to convert Splf into PDF, but
it's possible to convert SPLF into HTML and ASCII Text.
Hope it works fine for you.
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:53:11 +0200, Michel Bonnetaud <nos...@zobi.com>
wrote:
>Hello,
rick
you can search www.search400.com . in this web site you can found some
demo. i has testing using java package tools itext convert pdf file
from spool file . it's very userful and interesting. this url
:http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci847978,00.html .
this method also can conver to asia font
Larry T.
Just caught your thread. I am with JBM Systems and we offer a commercial
PDF generator that interfaces with as400, unix, linux, s390 and pc
platforms. If you need software to do this task take a look at
http://www.jbmsystems.com/octopdf.html for more details. I do have the
ability to to batch and quick turn around conversions for those one-time
requirements. Most recently we converted over a 1000 .efx fax documents to
pdf for a client in the UK. He was thrilled with the resultant quick turn
around (overnight) as well as the quality. Take a look at the web site and
give me a call or email if I can be of any help. Thanks for your time.
Larry Taitelbaum,
la...@jmbsystems.com 978 535-7676
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Leslie S. Russell
http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublished/ipservernew_
i_ww
Or try Ghostscript for windows, linux, mac, etc...
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
The IBM product is pricey, Ghostscript is free, free, free. Infoprint is
native to the 400 but (until the next release, due Aug 22) the file names
are goofy (though there are ways to rename the resulting PDF's). Another
advantage Infoprint has over almost all the other products mentioned in this
thread is that you can split a huge spooled file into multiple PDF's with
minimal recoding.
Ghostscript would require you to either setup a Client Access printer, or
download the spooled (http://www.rjssoftware.com/winspool.htm) file before
it was useful. Major disadvantage with Ghostscript is that if you have a
huge spooled file when you start, you have a huge pdf when you finish.
However, since it is PC based you could write a PC program that would split
the document for you, or use a third party tool like Monarch
(http://monarch.datawatch.com/) to format the spooled file and print it to a
Post script printer (to file on disk) and then convert that, using
Ghostscript, to PDF.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like any help.
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Larry T.
http://www.jbmsystems.com/octopdf.html It runs on a window/pc server and
takes spooled data, report text output and automatically converts to PDF,
assigns email and file addresses and has options for handeling PCL, forms
merge and report bursting based on your data input variables. Product is
very cost effective and used in as/400, s/390, Unix, Linux and Windows
environment. If you are looking for a more hands-off automatic converstion
untility, this may be a solution.
Larry T.
JBM Systems 978 535-7676
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Robert Comer
Can you enlighten me a bit on that?
- Bob Comer
"Leslie S. Russell" <leslies...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Leslie S. Russell
data queues to out queues.
Assume you have a PSF where the destination directory is '/home/MyDir', and
the PDFMULT is *YES. As you know the Infoprint server will create a new sub
directory named JOBNAME (where JOBNAME is the actual job name of the
submitted or interactive job), and a sub directory beneath that named
YOURUSERID (where YOURUSERID is your AS/400 user id).
If you have sent a multipage spool file to the PDF writer (and the proper
START and END directives exists in the spooled file) then the end result
will be a number of PDF's in the YOURUSERID directory named using the
default Infoprint PDF naming convention of
jobnumber_spoolfilenumber_spoolfilename_date_sequencenumber.PDF.
The path of each document would look like this
'/home/MyDir/JOBNAME/YOURUSERID/jobnumber_spoolfilenumber_spoolfilename_date
_sequencenumber.PDF'
Now, knowing the full path name of the finished document you can use the RNM
command:
RNM
OBJ('/home/MyDir/JOBNAME/YOURUSERID/jobnumber_spoolfilenumber_spoolfilename_
date_sequencenumber.PDF') NEWOBJ('/home/MyDir/JOBNAME/YOURUSERID/MyPDF.pdf')
You could, as I have done, attach a data queue to the PDF out queue and kick
off a rename process for each spooled file dropped on the out queue. A big
disadvantage is that the rename process might catch up with the pdf
generation process, especially if you have a large spooled file.
I am sure there are other methods but I am using something similar to this.
Please feel free to contact me if I am unclear on a point.
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Robert Comer
That's kind of the method I was thinking about, but hadn't tried it yet. I
see the same method can be used to change authorities as well, which has
been a problem.
- Bob Comer
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Bradley V. Stone
<leslies...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>If you have sent a multipage spool file to the PDF writer (and the proper
>START and END directives exists in the spooled file) then the end result
>will be a number of PDF's in the YOURUSERID directory named using the
>default Infoprint PDF naming convention of
>jobnumber_spoolfilenumber_spoolfilename_date_sequencenumber.PDF.
If I am going to put START and END directives in my spooled file, why
wouldn't I just put a CLOSE and OPEN to create seperate spooled files
instead, then using a less inexpensive tool that allows you to name
the file anything I want?
I also find the email capabilities of IPS lacking.. I didn't think
anything could be worse than SNDDST, but I found it. :)
Nice to see you around here again, Leslie!
Brad
Leslie S. Russell
file and Infoprint will automatically split it up into N (where N is the
number of START and END pairs you have). In my case this is what I needed
to do because it allowed me to leave to 5000 page spooled file in the out
queue for the green screen users, and the PC users can have their light
weight 2-3 page pdf.
And according to IBM, as of Aug 22, Infoprint will allow full control over
the name of the finished pdf, and supposedly the email capabilities will be
better too. But that remains to be seen.
P.S.
Glad to be back. And I tried to get my boss to purchase SPLTOOL but they are
a "True Blue" shop and if it doesn't come from IBM they don't trust it.
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Bradley V. Stone
<leslies...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>P.S.
>Glad to be back. And I tried to get my boss to purchase SPLTOOL but they are
>a "True Blue" shop and if it doesn't come from IBM they don't trust it.
That's too bad, the SPLTOOL Suite will already do what IBM plans on
doing (has for years) and will still do more in the long run, except
splitting spooled files (if they need to be split, I still say it is
easier to put in an option to close then open the file in the program
to split them, what is that, 5 lines of code at the most?).
I can't see them getting the email capabilities much better than with
MAILTOOL (part of the suite). Like I want to email my customers their
invoices with a title on the email of "copy of spooled file xxxx" and
have the file named "0001.pdf". :)
Renaming the attachment file is as easy as pie in the MIME header, so
I expect IBM would allow that. The subject as well! And in the
future hopefully they will allow you to change the MIME header type so
you can email HTML emails with attachments. Also, adding on other
attachments or using an attachment as the body of the message (like a
pre-defined HTML file, text file, etc)... all of which MAILTOOL
already does. :)
Hey, if it weren't for the true blue shops, IBM would be out of
binniss. There are plenty of shops out there that find the usefulness
of mine and other's tools to keep us all moving along...
walter
> a "True Blue" shop and if it doesn't come from IBM they don't trust it.
What do they think, how much of true blue IBM software is written by
IBM and how much is purchased from people like Bradley Stone and put
into a blue box?
Do you remember the IBM AS/400 fax software? I think the medical word
for it is emetic. Take a look at other AS/400 faxwares to see what
such a software can do.
Walter
Leslie S. Russell
business partners get. So when they go Blue it is for pecuniary reasons.
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