Re: PDF Limitations?

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

For AFPTOOL, it does convert it to a tiff then to PDF, SPLTOOL on SCS SPLFs 
just converts it to a text PDF file. I know the latter is true becuase I 
have opened up the PDF file and "hacked it" to say something completely 
different in notepad.

On 4/14/05, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> > michael@ryantechnolo
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> > 04/14/2005 11:59 AM
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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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