RE: A much better PDF generator than yesterday -- LINUX5250

Subject: RE: [LINUX5250] A much better PDF generator than yesterday
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:48:51 -0700 (MST)
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Egan, Matt B. (Artco) wrote:

> What exactly are you making? Yes I gathered that it was a PDF Generator but
> what are you generating the PDF from? Screen output? Sounds interesting.

Printed output.  Now you can use:

lp5250d env.DEVNAME=PRTTOPDF outputcommand='scs2pdf > /tmp/pdffile.pdf'
myas400

and anything sent to out queue PRTTOPDF will be converted to a pdf.
Basically and GPLed version of Adobe Distiller that runs on linux (or
whatever else you want).

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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