Creating PDF documents

[Lerebours, Jose]

Thanks Ryan, I truly appreciate the info ... It gives me
something to go on.



Jose

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Ryan Kelley [mailto:ryan.kelley at trinitytransport.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:08 AM
> To: Lerebours, Jose
> Cc: fplist2
> Subject: RE: Creating PDF documents
> 
> 
> Jose,
> 
> I was looking at my code, and to my surprise imagemagick 
> doesn't actually
> convert the pcl file.  We first have to convert the .pcl to a 
> tiff via a
> vsifax utility called pcltotif.
> 
> if you have vsifax, it's still very simple.
> 
> 
> system noredraw "/home/vsifax/lbin/pcltotif -o /ptmp/i"{3 {".tif" <
> "/ptmp/"{ 3 {"i > /dev/null 2>&1"
> 
> 
> that's the code to convert the pcl file /ptmp/(field3)i into 
> the tif file
> /ptmp/i(field3).tif
> then the conversion from tif to pdf is pretty easy
> 
> 
> system noredraw "convert /ptmp/i(field3).tif /ptmp/your.pdf"
> 
> 
> Sorry for the misinformation in my previous post....this 
> process seems kind
> of silly looking back, i'd imagine that there is an easier 
> way to go from
> .pcl to .pdf, but we don't use this process very often, so for us this
> works.
> 
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lerebours, Jose [mailto:Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:49 AM
> To: J. Ryan Kelley
> Subject: RE: Creating PDF documents
> 
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> Thanks for the info.  Can you forward sample syntax for
> creating a PDF out of a filePro report?  Report has PCL
> code within ...
> 
> I cannot find a reference within attached link on how to
> create PDF documents.
> 
> Thanks;
> 
> 
> Jose Lerebours
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J. Ryan Kelley [mailto:ryan.kelley at trinitytransport.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:05 AM
> > To: Lerebours, Jose; Fplist (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: Creating PDF documents
> >
> >
> > We use imagemagick to covert the .pcl filepro output files 
> into pdfs.
> > This software package is useful for converting all kinds of 
> different
> > formats as well.
> >
> > We typically only use the .pdf, .pcl, and .tif capabilities though.
> >
> > (good news, it's free!)
> >
> > http://imagemagick.sourceforge.net/www/convert.html
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of
> > Lerebours,
> > Jose
> > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:56 AM
> > To: Fplist (E-mail)
> > Subject: Creating PDF documents
> >
> >
> > What are you guys/gals using to create PDF
> > documents from filePro applications?
> >
> > SCO Unix based ... !!!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jose Lerebours
> > Principal Software Engineer
> > Eagle Global Logistics
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> > Miami, FL 33126
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> > eMail: Jose.Lerebours at eaglegl.com
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