Re: How do I create a PDF with embedded links?

Actually it's not that unwieldy. But I would think most of the parameters
could default (not sure if they do) to some standard values.

When I created my spooled file to PDF creator over 15 years ago (which most
think I just used "APIs" for.. nope, it was "from scratch") I found out the
hard way how complex PDF files actually are. Studying the PDF manual was a
bore, but a necessity for my customers. There weren't really any user
groups either that a person could get help from.

So without loading CREATEIPDF on my system it's hard to say if most of
those parms are required or optional and default to standard values. I
wouldn't want to have to enter all of those, though. :) And I do
understand your reaction very well. :)

With ours we simple allow the user to map the original spooled file
attributes to the new PDF file's attributes. So there are still a lot of
"parameters" but they're done behind the scenes.

Brad
www.bvstools.com



On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I did some testing of iPDF, and it should fit the bill for our needs

now...


I was just reading the iPDF doc:

http://bit.ly/1Rj7OoI

The CREATEIPDF command has an extraordinary number of command parameters,
which are delineated across something like 17 pages in the doc. That's an
intense (unwieldy) interface for converting spool files to PDFs.

We appear to be a little off topic here. If I understand correctly iPDF
doesn't answer the question about embedding hyperlinks in PDF files.
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