I'm happy to sing the praises of OpenPDF. Jason was too modest to
mention that OpenPDF comes with a sister program, SPOOLPDF, that
converts ANY HP3000 spoolfile so that it can be processed by OPENPDF.
And what was great for us was that we were able to migrate to an mpux
emulator sitting on top of HPUX and continue to produce PDF reports via
the Unix equivalent of OPENPDF.
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Jason Kent
Sent: 24 November 2010 14:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Fantasia and PDF
James,
OpenPDF has always been a separate product from Fantasia/3000. OpenPDF
is designed to take PCL, including fonts, logos and graphics from any
source on the HP3000 and convert it to PDF format. It doesn't require
Fantasia and isn't a sub-component of Fantasia.
However, as there are many MPE sites using Open Seas' Fantasia/3000
product to produce PCL output for LaserJet printers it made perfect
sense to build a bridge between the two so that Fantasia can invoke
OpenPDF at those sites which have licenses for both products, as
explained in the Fantasia supplemental manual you refer to.
Fantasia H.01.01 is an older version of the software but still supports
the PARM=97 command so that it could invoke OpenPDF providing you have a
copy of the software in the OPENPDF group of Fantasia's LARC account.
You are welcome to a trail version of OpenPDF, just let me know.
Jason Kent
Open Seas
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of James B. Byrne
Sent: 24 November 2010 14:08
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Subject: Fantasia and PDF
A long time ago I dimly recall reading that Fantasia had some sort of
interface to a PDF generator. For some reason I formed the belief that
this was intrinsic to Fantasia but it appears that from the 2003
supplemental reference that the program OPENPDF from OpenSeas is
required.
We use version H.01.01 and this seems not to support the built-in call
to OPENPDF using parm=97 as specified in the documentation.
So, what other products are available to produce pdf documents from
laser printer spool files on an HP3000?
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the U.S. of A.
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