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I'll take a look at it.
The job log from Brad's has the following:
10800 - SNDPGMMSG MSGID(CPF9898) MSGF(QCPFMSG) MSGDTA('Performing Tiff to
PDF conversion...') TOPGMQ(*EXT) MSGTYPE(*STATUS)
It also has a .tiff output option and doesn't find text when I search
search so I'm inclined to say that it does it all as an image. The good
news is that it's billed as an AFPDS-only tool but it doesn't seem to have
a problem with SCS spool files.
Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN 46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Another one is CVTSPLSTMF from Ariadne Software
http://www.ariadnesoftware.com/
I didn't think Brad's AFPTOOL converted to graphics.
Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
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> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: PDF Limitations?
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> On 4/14/05, daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I guess I should have read the fine print. I believe that
> they both have
> > an intermediate step that converts the spool file to a
> .tiff image. I
> > wonder if that's due to overlays or other characteristics
> of AFPDS spool
> > files. Maybe that's why the conversion programs that I've
> seen so far tend
> > to differentiate between SCS and AFPDS. I'm trying the
> CVTSPLSTMF from
> > MMAIL right now and it's been chugging away for a few minutes.
>
> as I understand it, most but not all as400 pdf tools go the route of
> having the as400 api convert the spooled file to a tiff image, then
> the tiff image is stored in the pdf file. There are two problems with
> the tiff image approach. First, it makes the resulting pdf file
> larger than otherwise. ( important when emailing the document )
> Second, I doubt the end user can search the document for text and it
> probably does not scale very well when they view it.
>
> Gumbo software is the only as400 vendor I know of that creates the pdf
> file directly from the text contents of the spooled file.
>
> -Steve
>
> >
> > What about Infoprint Server? Does anybody know if it has a
> limit on AFPDS
> > printer files?
> >
> >
> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN 46571
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
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> > I dunno about AFPTOOl, but CVTSPLFPDF says it supports up
> to 2 pages...
> >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: PDF Limitations?
> > > From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Thu, April 14, 2005 12:41 pm
> > > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Since PDF's seem to be the topic of the day...
> > >
> > > Is there a size limit to PDF's? I've been giving trial
> runs to AFPTOOL
> > by
> > > Brad Stone and CVTSPLFPDF from MMAIL at
http://www-922.ibm.com/. They
> both
> > seem to do a good job but they both had problems when I tried to
convert
> a
> > spool file that was 8660 pages. Was that too much? I've only done a
> > minimal amount of testing so it could be my fault. Granted, most
reports
> > that we would be interested in converting wouldn't be nearly that big
but
> I
> > thought that I'd try this since our accounting department runs some
large
> > year-end reports that they want to keep until the end of time.
> >
> >
> > Dave Parnin
> > Nishikawa Standard Company
> > Topeka, IN 46571
> > daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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