Re: Send PDF to Browser

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why not just store the PDF in your web path in a different directory and
offer a link to the PDF?  Why go through all the trouble of reading the PDF
and outputting it?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Jan,
>
> If you generate the PDF file and send it in the same process there isn't
> much
> performance loss since the IFS file isn't written/paged to disk but resides
> in
> mainstorage - this is however only my own experience others may have
> different
> experiences.
>
> In general it takes more time to generate the spool-file that it takes to
> send the
> IFS file to the browser.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Henrik
> >
> > I wanted to optimize the performance. But I see, I have to go the
> IFS-way.
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> > Am 16.06.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Henrik Rützou:
> >
> > > As far as I know you have to store the spool-file in PDF in the IFS
> since
> > > you
> > > can't write spool files into a storage address.
> > >
> > > But what is the problem? You can just delete it after it is send to the
> > > browser.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello
> > > > I create a webservice that receives a document-ID as input and shall
> > > > deliver a PDF of the document back to the consumer. I generate a
> spooled
> > > > file of the document and use the attributes wscst(*PDF) and tostmf of
> the
> > > > printer-file to convert the spooled file to a PDF and store it in the
> > > > IFS.
> > > > With my program I read the PDF from the IFS, put a appropriate header
> > > > before it and use STDOUT to send it to the consumer.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to do this without having to store the PDF temporarily
> in
> > > > the IFS?
> > > >
> > > > Best regards
> > > >
> > > > Jan
> > > >
> > > >
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