Re: DIY mark-up to PDF

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:14 PM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Hm. Again, there's manually, and then there's manually. Are you saying
there is a person who takes these DIY markup files and manually opens
them in some Windows software, which can then print (or otherwise
render) the final output?

Also, did you already say who/what is *generating* these markup files?
Even if you aren't allowed to change it, there still might be some
insight to be had.

This thread has been pretty chaotic, plus e-mail propagation is never
guaranteed to be sequential anyway, so (1) I'm not going to assume I
caught everything you said (and if I missed something, I apologize),
and (2) please do not feel that I'm hounding you in any way. I just
find this genuinely interesting and am trying to understand. (And
ultimately help, if I can.)

John Y.