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Re: Creating PDF files from Pick

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Has anything happened with PDF files since 1997?

I'm looking for a way to create PDF files from D3 Pick, hopefully coded in Pick.
I've gotten an HTML version to sort of work, but it displays differently on different systems.  For instance, in Outlook, it isn't showing the table columns nor the alternating colored rows.
On an iPad, the HTML email shows the table columns correctly separated by a normal vertical line, but no alternating-colored rows. 

Quite frustrating.


On Tuesday, February 18, 1997 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Tony Gravagno wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:40:23 -0500, Ronney Black <rblack@gwis.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Prashant Sahgal wrote:
> >> We have two A/P boxes running on AIX. We would like to publish our reports on our Intranet by creating PDF
> >> files from our spooler jobs. Has anyone done this?
> >> 
> >> Alternatively, if anyone knows where I can get info on the file format, please let me know. Maybe I can do the
> >> coding in Pick Basic. So far, I have only been successful in dumping TXT files to our FTP directory. A PDF file
> >> would be more GUI-oriented.
> 
> Ronney Black wrote:
> >What I've been doing is printing reports to a spool file, then exporting
> >the spooled item to a pick file and then sending that file to our
> >intranet server.  It's clutzy but it works.  If you hear of - or come up
> >with a better way I'd like to know about it.  Likewise, if I find a
> >smoother solution I'll post it.
> 
> It seems like all of my postings require an upgrade from AP to D3, but
> that's because the tools are there.  You can try one of the following
> two solutions using D3:
> 
> The first:
> 1) Use NFS to mount a PC directory to a Unix directory.  Example:
>     mount   mypc:/PDF_dir   /net/PC/mypc/PDF_dir
> 2) If you want a printer report to go out, note that in D3 the spooler
> hold files now go to a "normal" file, rather than frames in overflow.
> So whenever you print something to a hold entry, copy that hold entry
> to the new mounted file system.  For example:
>     copy spooler,peqs, 17    to: (unix:/net/PC/PDF_dir
> 3) When the data gets on the PC doing the PDF conversion, a few things
> need to happen:  Adobe Distiller converts .PRN (printer output) files
> to PDFs, so you may need to run the output through a program that does
> a print to a file.  Then you need to run it through the distiller.
> 
> The second alternative is the same, except that rather than doing the
> copy mentioned in step #2, you can setup an alternate spooler file,
> which is actually the mounted file system.  This means changing the
> q-pointer pointing to the "spooler,peqs" file to something different,
> like "spooler,remote.peqs".  The data level of remote.peqs will then
> be changed from a super-q-pointer pointing to "peqs:" to
> "unix:/net/PC/mypc/PDF_dir".  This is easier to do than it sounds, but
> at the same time there are a few little hooks.  I'll reserve the hooks
> for another thread, but they involve getting the peqs "hdr:" to look
> at the right peqs file.  If you don't want to mess with this sort of
> thing, use the first option.
> 
> Lastly, FYI, an Adobe Acrobat reader is available for AIX, HP/UX,
> Linux and a few others.  (I haven't had any luck with the Linux port
> yet, might be the version of the distiller we are using.)
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> --
> Tony Gravagno, Pick Systems, Inc.
> Quality Assurance Manager
> FTP/Technical Pages (only) Administrator
> http://www.picksys.com/technical/techmain.htm
> 
> For Customer Support, please contact
> support@picksys.com or phone 714-261-1875
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