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On Nov 6, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Brent Reid wrote:
I have a PDF template that contains several fields for inputting data.
My client desires to print from a Terminal window that is displaying
Mainframe data, and have that information printed into the PDF template
using Distiller.
...
Can someone point me to an example of how I can capture this data from the
Terminal window into the PDF template ?
Thanks, Brent
Brent,
This sounds like you are talking about a 3270 terminal attached to an OS/390 or Z/OS system?
If that's the case I would do the following:
Pick one of the many available 3270 Screen Scraping tools to capture the data displayed by the terminal.
Use the captured data to build an FDF or XFDF file. ( both are simply structured text files. )
Import the FDF or XFDF into the Acrobat form file.
This can be done relatively easily in either a desktop or server environment. What are your requirements?
Regards,
Mark Gavin Chief Technology Officer Appligent, Inc. 60 South Lansdowne Avenue Lansdowne, PA 19050 (610) 284-4006 http://www.appligent.com
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