I've finally gotten around to uploading a new version of TXT2PDF. This
one adds TrueType embedding and subsetting, better mapping of Unicode
characters, GPLv2 licensed, and some other minor changes.
You can get the it from:
http://homerow.net/rexx/txt2pdf/
While there, check out the new examples of some simple examples of what
you can achieve with these new changes.
I've informed Lionel and forwarded him the manual changes, so I'd expect
there to be updated z/OS XMIT version soon. In the meantime, you could
extract the TXT2PDF EXEC from the tarball.
Leland
Here's what was changed:
History:
04/17/09 - LLL - Added TrueType font embedding and subsetting. The
XFONT keyword was updated to specify the fonts.
Added the DELIM keyword to allow using characters
other the "/" as the parameter separator.
Added the ENCODING keyword to provide support for
Unicode.
Added new font name parameter to the TMARK type
of the BG keyword.
Added ROWCOL subtype to the ATTR type of the TEXT
keyword.
Object lengths are no longer forward references to
separate objects, somewhat reducing PDF size.
Fixed control character initialization so that it
they are translated properly.
Made sure all SELECTs had an OTHERWISE to make the
REXX compiler happier.
More minor cleanup.
11/31/08 - LLL - Changed license to GPLv2 from QPL. There were
companies wanting to distribute TXT2PDF with their
product and the QPL was too restrictive.
Even though the GPL allows it, I hope the companies
do not try to make money off of TXT2PDF since I
was kind enough to make it easier to redistribute.
May a pox be on them if they do. :-)
