- CoolSpools Version 5 is the new release of a suite of iSeries spool file conversion and export tools which allow you to send selected spool files to folder(s) in the IFS in plain text, HTML or Adobe Acrobat formats. The documents may then be viewed/printed using the appropriate editor/viewer on attached PCs or Network Stations on an intranet, local or wide area network or on the internet. The documents may also be exported for use on other platforms
- The spool formats supported are for both directly attached local printers and for those defined as IPDS using AFP. The AFP support includes line graphics (lines, boxes etc.) and multiple fonts, and you can pre-define font mappings. PDFs may be compressed and linearised PDF are also supported
- CoolSpools has the ability to create delimited ASCII (e.g. .CSV) files. This is useful for loading columns of numbers into a spreadsheet. It also has a spool archiving facility. By using TOFMT(*SAV), you can save your spooled files in a compressed archive file, freeing up disk space and iSeries resources. You can restore your spooled file from the archive later for viewing/printing
Special features include:
Support for AFP and IPDS spooled files
- multiple fonts per file/page/line
- line graphics
- page segments
- overlays
- user-definable font mappings allowing control over how iSeries fonts appear in the stream file
PDF data compression
- Spooled file data is converted by CoolSpools to PDF files in compressed format. This significantly reduces the size of the generated stream files, and thus reduces the size of archives and e-mails and improves PDF load times
- CoolSpools creates web-optimized PDF files
- CoolSpools creates PDF files which are structured ("linearized") to give the best possible load times over the Internet or a WAN. Improvements can be truly dramatic
Splitting spooled files
- CoolSpools has the ability to split a single spooled file into several separate PDF files. Perhaps you have an application which creates a single spooled file containing invoices for a number of customers. You can now ask CoolSpools to split the spooled file into separate PDF files for each customer. You can ask for splitting to occur every 'n' pages, or every time a specified keyword appears in the spooled file
Exit Program
- You can instruct CoolSpools to call a user-written exit program every time it writes a PDF file. The exit program is passed a standard set of parameters, plus a string of text extracted from the spooled file according to criteria that you define. Coupled with the ability to split spooled files described above, this gives you the power to adapt existing applications to the challenge of distributing reports and documents via e-mail rather than snail mail
For example, you could tell CoolSpools to split your invoices spooled file into separate PDF files for each customer, and ask it to call an exit program after each PDF file has been created. CoolSpools could extract the customer number from the spooled file and pass it to the exit program as a parameter. The exit program could then retrieve the customer's e-mail address from the database and invoke a mail application to send the PDF file to the customer
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