OK, I missed that txt2pdf was written in REXX. On Monday 11 August 2003 04:05 pm, you wrote: > TXT2PDF is what we have been talking about over in the VSE side. > > But, even the author states that it is limited. VSE2PDF does a much > better job and is fairly inexpensive (per the author of txt2pdf). > > Since, I have Linux as an option, I wanted to explore the varients > under Linux. I would think that even the program product from Adobe, > may be available for Linux, if not Linux/390. > > I could jury-rig a lot of things. Star Office may be able to save in > PDF format. Bring up Word under Wine (would that be a winey word?) and > save in PDF format. There is a package for Windows that allows you to > send keystrokes to applications, which would allow for some scripting. > > But Linux must have a better way. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/11/03 03:54PM >>> > > There is a Linux package called (surprisingly enough) 'txt2pdf' (it > might be > 'text2pdf', it's been a while). You should be able to search for it > with > Google. It is Perl based and written by a couple of gentlemen from > Italy. > It seemed to work fairly well, but if you want support for mainframe > reports > (carriage control and such) you had to get the commercial version > (which > wasn't real expensive). > > On Monday 11 August 2003 03:13 pm, you wrote: > > Back on the VSE Listserv, we have had a lot of discussions about > > generating PDF files under VSE. > > > > Now it is time to get educated about generating PDF files under > > Linux/390. > > > > Is there software available for such a process? > > > > I'm thinking about routing printouts to Linux and have a Regina > > process > > pick it up, do the PDF conversion and send it along its way. > > Doable? > > > Second tangent, is there software that can use PDF files and drive > > an > > > IP attached printer? And no, I don't mean something that has a gui > > screen front end, but something that can be executed within Regina. > > > > Application for this is.... > > > > We have been looking at creating green bar overlays for some > > printouts > > > (ok so it will be grey bar). > > > > RSCS has a limit of 255 characters that can be used as a setup > > string. > > > VSE also has that limit, but you can optionally code the setup > > string > > > in an assembler program, and use that table. This works, but I need > > to > > cycle the IP stack to make any of these changes. Not the best > > option. > > > So, I'm looking at sending the printouts to another service machine > > (it > > may end up being a VSE service machine, or it could be a Linux one). > > I > > would rather it be under RSCS, but RSCS doesn't seem to want to > > play. > > > Thanks > > > > Tom Duerbusch > > THD Consulting
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