They render it manually by reading thru the text, with a 3rd party, Windows-only, .NET tool to create the output. There process is basically what I'm looking at doing, except I'll be doing it in RPG and (most likely) pdfbox.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Yeung [mailto:gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2019 10:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: DIY mark-up to PDF
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:40 AM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My best guess is that the mark-up was created here by the Windows team 2+ decades ago.
And what did THEY use to render it? And perhaps more relevantly, who or what is generating these markup documents today? (The latter question may point to an opportunity for upstream improvements.)
John Y.
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