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Mark, I had considered this approach, thanks for validating it. Any preference on the screen scraping tools ? Thanks to all for your input. Brent -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Gavin Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDFdev] Printing to a template PDFdev is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com _____________________________________________________________ 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 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfdev.html
