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Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fw: Adobe-PDF > > I will assume that you want to generate PDFs on z/OS and not use a PDF > reader under ISPF :-) > > A very popular tool, and the most popular Java framework for generating > PDFs (including the common use case: merging PDF templates with data) is > iText http://itextpdf.com/, which is free/open source. > > Here's a link to a white paper on our website that includes free/open > source Java program for generating PDFs from data file (CSV) using iText. > You could run this anywhere, but we include instructions and JCL for > running this on z/OS Java under the IBM JZOS batch launcher, or offloading > the processing to a Linux box/blade/IFL using our Co:Z Hybrid batch > toolkit. (generating PDFs is quite resource intensive, so there are some > very good reasons to offload it) > > http://dovetail.com/products/casestudyitext.html > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > WHAT product? Adobe has dozens. > > > > Let's start from a statement of the problem. What function would you like > > to > > implement on z/OS? > > > > Reading a PDF? Creating a PDF? On traditional z/OS or USS? > > > > Here's a start, if you can live with creating a PDF in USS Java: > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ > > > > The Adobe PDF creation library claims MVS support: > > > > > http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/webseminars/PDFL_WebSem > inar.pd > > f > > > > Charles > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > [email protected]] On > > Behalf Of Ron Wells > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 11:53 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Fw: Adobe-PDF > > > > Have asked Adobe as well...if they have a z/OS install of product ..heard > > it > > is available but through another Vendor they work with.. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
