RE: AFP spooled file to PDF Conversion

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael, 

I believe our toolset was one of the ones you looked at and had an overlay offset issue.

There is a common issue with Host Print Transform that will offset the overlay unless you tweak the overlay offsets when you generate your report. 

This seems to only happen when you use Host Print Transform to an image based format and it's a long standing host print transform deficiency.

If you're on V6R1 and above you can use the transformation services to convert AFP files to PDF files as an option also where a 3rd party converter may not be needed.

Feel free to contact me offline to schedule a review if you're having issues with our converter and want to figure out how to resolve.

I believe most of the 3rd party tools use Host Print Transform to convert AFP to PDF.

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Richard Schoen
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date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:23:40 -0500
from: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: AFP spooled file to PDF Conversion

Does anyone besides IBM do this well? I've looked at two vendors programs for doing this, and neither works well. I've been told that Infoprint is the way to go with this. Anyone know the cost of Infoprint for a P20 processor?

Thanks!