Re: Email *USERASCII spool file as PDF attachment

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just FWIW...

*USERASCII really just means that the system doesn't know or care what 
string of bytes is in the spooled file.  It's just going to send that 
string of bytes, as-is, to the printer.

You could, literally, create a spooled with any arbitrary string of 
bytes, in any format you want, and call it *USERASCII.

In order for a computer program to know how to view, transform, print, 
etc data that's in *USERASCII format, it'd have to be omniscient, since 
the data could literally be in any format you can find or dream-up.

Software could potentially be written that is able to detect any of the 
common formats (PCL, PostScript, PDF, PPDS, plain text, etc) and 
automatically convert those formats to PDF, but there's no way it could 
handle everything that's possible.

Please remember when you talk about *USERASCII, you aren't talking about 
a specific format. It makes the whole rest of the conversation make a 
lot more sense.



Jeff Young wrote:
> All,
> Is there any product for the i that will allow the email of a *USERASCII
> spool file as a PDF file?
> Since the *USERASCII spool file can not be viewed or copied, my current
> email program is not able to do this.
>
> Thanks,