Re: DIY mark-up to PDF

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean-Paul Lamontre has a library that provides direct RPG to PDF capabilities with no need for Java etc.

It is part of his tools library here: http://jplamontre.free.fr/jpltools.htm <http://jplamontre.free.fr/jpltools.htm>

There are savefiles for V7.3, V7.1 and others.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Richard Schoen via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well since you didn't mention commercial vs non-commercial.....
>
> Our iForms product can generate forms and reports documents quite easily.
> https://www.helpsystems.com/solutions/document-forms-management
>
> I don't think it will work with your custom markup though.
>
> You may end up writing code for that if you feel you must use custom markup.
>
> The use HTML instead of custom markup suggestion is a good one.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen 
> Director of Document Management 
> e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> p. 952.486.6802 
> w. helpsystems.com 
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> subject: Re: DIY mark-up to PDF
>
> 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.? :)
>
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