As long as they use Windows Metafile format and can print through the Windows
print driver structure they'll work. LibreOffice Draw should work. Gimp would
probably work as well, though business overlays are typically text and vector
graphics rather than images, and for color printing its
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:30:21 -0500, Howard Turetzky wrote:
As long as they use Windows Metafile format and can print through the Windows
print driver structure they'll work. LibreOffice Draw should work. Gimp would
probably work as well, though business overlays are typically text and vector
The Columbus suite from Macro 4 is another alternative.
The Columbus Z product runs on the mainframe and will print to your IPDS
printers.
It can also automatically ACIF any print jobs on the mainframe and if
required transmit the ACIF output to other platforms.
The Columbus suite also has
I believe PPFA and OGL are still available as one-time charge offerings. The
alternatives for PPFA are all considerably pricier. There simply aren't any
lower-cost alternatives. However, if you don't need extreme precision placing
objects for your overlays, there is a slightly less expensive
:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?
There are alternatives to OGL and PPFA, though not on z/OS. There are
Windows-based visual tools for creating PAGEDEFs, FORMDEFs, Overlays and fonts
from Elixir
(http://rpp.ricoh-usa.com/products/software
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Objective is saving $$$
I only have about 10-20 forms
There are alternatives to OGL and PPFA, though not on z/OS. There are
Windows-based visual tools for creating PAGEDEFs, FORMDEFs, Overlays and fonts
from Elixir
(http://rpp.ricoh-usa.com/products/software/composition/elixir-designpro-tools)
and ISIS (http://www.isis-papyrus.com/).
There are
There are many ways to print (and pseudo-print, i.e. generate output that
doesn't generally land on paper) from z/OS. But would you add some color
to what viable means for you?
Timothy Sipples
Anyone know of a viable alternative to PSF, OGL, PPFA, and ACIF on z/OS?
TIA
Ken
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This
If you can move your printers most of these run on AIX.
Depending on how complex your mix of Formdefs,Pagedefs, Overlays and
Psegs(images) ePrint was how we wound out of PSF. It's a Linux box that takes
line printer output and converts to .PDF for viewing. Not a trivial
undertaking but
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