Re: AFPRSC - is there a setting to use png images?

thanks Vern, just entered the requirement request.


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Gerald

Short answer right now is, it depends.

According to information I just got for the project I'm working on, PNG
was added to AFP but might or might not work.

Here's some info -

"On the IBM i, they can be included in an *AFPDS printer file with the
AFPRSC DDS keyword. While we do not have a special "object type" value for
PNG images, they can be by specifiying the component id (65) assigned to
PNG images by AFP."

BTW, GIFs have a component ID of 22 and they DO work with the various
transforms.

Here's more of the "maybe" bit - the AFP team (that's not an IBM i group)
added PNG in 2011. Not all IPDS printers support it yet. PSF/I on IBM I CAN
handle PNGs IF you print to an IPDS printer that can handle them.

And the transforms on IBM i do NOT handle them. I suspect that should be
YET - and it'd be cool if you submitted a requirement at
requirements.common.org for this.

I'm taking PNGs and converting to GIFs, which do work - using ImageMagick
in PASE to do this - Michael Schutte had some replies to me recently - he's
done this with GIFs, which he gets from a web service - we're getting PNGs
from iPhones.

HTH
Vern

On 4/7/2016 1:36 PM, Gerald Magnuson wrote:

I just want to ask... because my millennial challenged cow-orkers say
"everything can use .png"

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