RE: PDF Limitations?

[ron_adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

For regular spool files, I will usually specify the output to TXT format, 
especially if they are large. If they are small, and I don't want the 
intended receiver to modify the data, I will use PDF. 
For Invoices and Statements, I always use PDF, but usually those will be 
less than 30 pages, most of the time they're 1-2 pages.

I think that more than 1000 pages is probably just a bit much to be trying 
to manage in a spool file (PDF) anyway. If you've got that much data, and 
it needs to be kept, you may want to consider sending the actual data in a 
CSV or using a spool archiving utility. We use Robot/Reports to archive 
our spool files. It also has the capability to create PDF, but normally we 
use SPLTOOL mostly for that.

Ron Adams





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The biggest spool file on our production system right now is a 3,629 page 
joblog.  And, it just happens to be a joblog from one of our Infoprint 
Server writers.  I'll shoot that one on to you.
On our development system I do have a 107,109 page simple spool file if 
you need a bigger test.

Rob Berendt
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Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
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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.

What about Infoprint Server?  Does anybody know if it has a limit on AFPDS
printer files?


Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
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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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