Re: DIY mark-up to PDF

Justin,
How about using an industry standard like HTML ...  HTML can do colors and fonts, etc.?
Then just open the document in any browser, and print to .PDF ...?  There are also any number of "libraries" of javascript, or for .NET, etc. to do this -- do a google search for "html to pdf" ...

HTH ...
Mark S. Waterbury

On Friday, March 8, 2019, 10:26:03 AM EST, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have text files that contain a DIY mark-up that I need to convert into PDF files.  I'm afraid I'm going to have to build the PDF by hand, but I figured I'd throw this out there in the hope that someone can offer a better alternative.

For reference, here's a snippet of mark-up:
X7
FontBold = True
FontUnderline = True
Print
FontBold = False
FontUnderline = False
X.5
Print          John Smith
X.5
FontBold = True
FontUnderline = True
Print Text data;
X4.5
Print More text data;

Horizontal spacing is controlled by the X values (in inches) and by spaces in the "Print" commands.  Vertical spacing is thru CR/LF.

This will be part of a real-time process running in RPG, with a transaction rate of about 1000/week.


I appreciate whatever feedback you can provide.  :)