Convert AS400 files to PDF
Question: I am testing the BETA RPM 5.0 and I am having some difficulty making PDF’s. I can send my AS/400 print jobs through RPM to a Laser printer and it works great but when I convert them to a PDF and try to archive them to a folder, all I get is junk. Do you have any quick tips that I could try?
Answer: If you configured your AS/400 OUTQ using our current setup instructions to get a decent PDF file, you should run these transforms in this order:
- Remove PCL
- Text Markup
- (optional)Apply COR to Text Markup
- Text Markup to PDF
Note that, from an AS/400, RPM supports converting standard SCS files to PDF. To see whether the files are SCS or another format, open the Attributes of the spool file. The Printer Device Type attribute shows the type. It can be SCS, AFPDS, IPDS, or USERASCII.
RPM can receive AFPDS files after they have been converted to a printer language by host print tranform, but this conversion creates complex print data that RPM cannot convert to PDF. This goes for most 3rd party applications as well, especially any that create graphics or bar codes.
RPM does not support IPDS files. For IPDS, check our ExcelliPrint.
USERASCII files do not fall into any of the above categories. Spool files of this type are simply not known by the AS/400.
There are a few differences with the new RPM and the older versions while using the AS/400. Please check out the differences and changes when printing with the AS/400.
Topics: AS400, PDF Conversion, RPM, RPM Beta |
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