on 7/5/00 8:55 AM, Mark Bixby at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Patrick Santucci wrote:
>>
>> Goodness, relevant SPAM? What's the 'net coming to?
>>
>> SANFACE Software spammed:
>>
>>> txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
>>> (5 penguins at LinuxBerg, 5 cows at TuCows Mac and BeOS).
>>> It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> MPEiX note about spoolfiles by Mark Bixby
>> ^^^^^^^^^^                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!
>
> IIRC, my note probably says (I haven't read this particular copy, so I don't
> know if I've been edited) that this product isn't capable of reproducing the
> spoolfile CCTLs in the PDF output because the CCTL information just isn't
> available to POSIX API programs such as Perl.
>
> - Mark B.

Yup... that would be the case.

So this brings up the next logical question... Does anybody have a program
to convert spoolfiles to straight text files that would work with txt2pdf?

-Lane