Re: AFPU (was RE: Free form for a printer and o specs)

[Raul Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Vern, from all the responses I see that AFPU is the one going
away, but the i will still support AFP printing.

With the samples provided by Jim I see that it is not very hard to do a
nice looking document.  With an OVRPRTF in the RPG program before
opening the printer file I get the output directly in the IFS, in PDF
format, ready to attach to an email.

On 7/26/19 9:17 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Hi Justin
>
> Fuzzy indeed - I think the HS article is kind of marketing FUDdy (they
> are selling pretty-good Java-based reporting tools that can run on the
> i, after all) - AFP Utilities is no longer supported after 7.2, but
> AFP itself is not going away. Is it as convenient to use it? Maybe
> not, so far as creating resources is concerned. There is now, since
> maybe 5.4, a PRTF keyword, AFPRSC, that lets us use IFS image files to
> put images on SPLF output - it generally works really well, but
> support in Host Print Transform come out only in 7.2 - but only in
> HP-compatible manufacture/model setups. The TIFF Host Print Transform
> does NOT support the AFPRSC keyword at this time - problematic for
> vendor product that use the TIFF *WSCST to convert SPLFs to TIFF, then
> create PDFs - I think most of the products that convert to PDF are in
> this state.
>
> CPYSPLF now gives very effective conversions to PDF - and there are
> PSF facilities, as I am told, and haven't yet worked with.
>
> The IBM article mentions other products that can work with AFP - I
> don't think any of them are native to IBM i, and we certainly do not
> want to utilize yet another Windows server (YAWS) to convert images to
> AFP source with the driver or to run another application.
>
> Regards
> Vern
>
> On 7/25/2019 12:09 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> > That's kind of fuzzy.
> > https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022140
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raul Jager [mailto:raul@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 11:36 AM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Free form for a printer and o specs
> >
> > PRTF can print beautiful reports, but the manual DDS for printer
> > files has no new features since 7.2, output specs for printer have no
> > free version, Does that means they are being replaced?
> >
> > Printer files with overlays are great for existing application Are
> > they a good option for new apps?
> >
> > Is this FUD?
> > https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/3-step-guide-replacing-afp-utilities

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