RE: Color Overlays?

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

I should mention that at this time, AFPTOOL doesn't convert color AFPDS
spooled files to color PDF files or TIFFs.  Which brings up the question,
does the HPT API support color yet?  :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:31 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Color Overlays?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 22:51, Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have been digging through the archives looking up how to do color
> > overlays. The ultimate goal here is to create a PDF file (with
> our colored
> > letterhead) that gets emailed to the customer. I can get black
> and white to
> > work, but I haven't seen much in the way of solutions except
> for the method
> > mentioned here (http://snipurl.com/9lonl).
>
> Color overlays with IBM standard tools are ... interesting.
>
> First there's the IBM AFP Printer Driver.
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P4000187
>
> It has some issues with color conversions, though. There's also a
> version of it included with System i Access.
>
> After pestering IBM for some time, i've received a version resolved
> most of our color conversion issues, i've put it up here for your
> convenience, but i would suggest you try the official versions first.
> http://projectdream.org/~lb/AFP Driver New.zip
>
> Secondly, 5722-IP1 with it's PDF conversion options works well, but
> has serious speed issues on older hardware - but you're good to go if
> you have a machine with 1000 CPW or more (which any halfway recent
> machine has).
>
> Then there's the "creative" way in my blog post above - it's an
> extremely ugly hack, and it should not be used anymore. I'll add a
> disclaimer stating that.
>
> There are also other, more professional tools for dealing with AFP
> files, but it looks like most of these are aimed at IBMs larger
> InfoPrint products (like the 4000 series), and it shows in the price.
>
> There also other ways to create Overlays if your aim ist just for PDF
> files - tools like pdfmerge can run in PASE, and there's a variety of
> tool vendors out there that offer pdf overlay in addition to pdf
> creation. They might have better ways than AFP Overlays.
>
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