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KeyesPDF(tm) - Version Differences
Support for the Russian Cyrillic Code Page 1025 was added to KeyesPDF.
You may supply user and/or owner passwords, if you want to encrypt the PDF documents that KeyesPDF creates. The passwords can be up to 32 characters long, each. Users will be limited to opening and possibly printing and annotating the PDF's. Otherwise, only an owner will be able to change a PDF.
Support for the Greek Code Page 875 was added to KeyesPDF.
Two new API's have been added that allow you to combine multiple *SCS printer files into a single PDF document. The first API is used to gather your spooled files into a Physical file. You can run this API as many times as needed to gather all the desired spooled files. The second API converts the Physical file, containing all the spooled file data, into a single large PDF document.
We have added the MICR font to the list of fonts that can be used in *USERASCII spooled files.
PDF documents can now be sent directly to a PDF Printer, for printing. This will work for either monochrome or color PDF documents.
*USERASCII spooled files can now specify color values when writing text. This will be translated to colors in the PDF document.
Large spooled files that were being broken up into many different documents were taking too long to burst. We changed the method used for doing the bursting function. The new method will burst spooled files much faster.
Spooled files that have been created with "Open DBCS" (Double Byte Character Set) fields can now be converted to ASCII Text or PDF documents. However, any bracketed DBCS fields that exist in the data stream will not be converted to the appropriate graphics characters.
With this addition, you can convert PCL written into a standard *SCS printer file using regular EBCDIC characters. The program translates the EBCDIC negate character (¬) into an ASCII escape character. All other EBCDIC characters are translated into the appropriate ASCII characters. To use this feature, place the key words "EBCDIC PCL" in the Spooled File's User Data field or Form Type.
Spooled files may now be defined to the KeyesPDF system on a Spooled File Description screen. You can define conversion parameters to be used for each of your different named spooled files. Data can be extracted from the spooled file pages and used in the Path or Filename parameters. Fields can be passed to an Exit program to extract additional information, as needed.
Default parameters for your spooled file conversions can now be entered on a Setup screen. These values are stored in a data area. The information is used in the conversion programs to direct how and where you want your spooled files to be processed.
The maximum width that spooled files were converted to Text or PDF documents was expanded from 290 up to 350 characters wide.
A new font (OCR A Extended) has been added to the PDF conversions. USERASCII documents can now include this font.
The Euro character was added to all of the available fonts. The Euro will take the place of the original generic money symbol.
Encoded PDF text streams cannot be easily read or changed by a text editor. This is intended to make the PDF document difficult to alter or forge.
KeyesUtility has been renamed to KeyesPDF Utility.
Network drive support has been added to KeyesUtility. The images that you create can be saved to any network drive that is shareable on your network.
The Filename Description field is used to Index (name) the PDF documents, when using the KUOUTQ auto processing. This field has been expanded to allow up to 60 character long filenames.
A menu (KUMENU) has been added to the KeyesUtility system. It will allow you to browse for spooled files for conversion to PDF. It also has items to start and stop the automatic KUOUTQ processing program.
When processing *USERASCII spooled files, the page size is extracted and used to set the size of the PDF page. Large page sizes up to 11 x 17 inches can be defined.
The maximum size of *USERASCII spooled files that can be extracted from an output queue has been expanded by a factor of 100. Now huge PCL spooled files with tens of thousands of pages can be converted to PDF documents.
A new method of indexing *SCS spooled files has been added to the Utility. You can name a specific location within the spooled file that contains the desired Index value. A document number or Customer number, for example, can be used to burst a spooled file into parts. Each part will be given the Index value found at that location, plus a filename extension, when copied to your IFS.
The number of spooled file pages that can be converted to a PDF document has been increased. For standard *SCS printer files the new limit is 30,000 pages. *AFPDS printer files can have up to 20,000 pages and *USERASCII (PCL) printer files can have up to 16,000 pages.
The automatic indexing feature has been expanded to allow *SCS and *USERASCII spooled files to be broken into separate parts. Each part will be made into a different image file. Description commands are embedded in your spooled files, with escape sequences, to give the filename of each part. This also gives you the ability to leave parts out.
Previously, PCL was converted to graphical based PDF documents. This prevented the text from being Indexed or Searched. Now the text is placed in the PDF file as text strings.
Full IFS support has been added to KeyesUtility. The images that you create can be saved to Physical Files or saved directly to your IFS, using long filenames.
Sample code has been added to the utility that will show you how to automatically copy the PDF files into your IFS. The code can be activated to automatically copy the created PDF's to any directory in your IFS with any name that you choose.
The resolution that USERASCII (PCL) and AFPDS Spooled files are converted to was increased from 240 to 300 DPI. This will create a slightly larger file size, but the resulting image is a much better quality.
The margins for the PDF documents have been reduced to allow larger fonts to be used when converting Spooled File pages. Horizontal scaling of the fonts has also been added, which allows for even larger, more easily read fonts.
A correction to the program that converts AFPDS spooled files into TIFF or PDF images has been made. Converted AFPDS spooled files had been prepared as 8 inch wide images. This caused some documents to lose up to 1/8 inch off the right side of the page. The new program has been altered to prevent any further clipping.
A method of automatic indexing (naming) of your PDF files created from USERASCII (PCL) spooled files has been added. You may code the name that you wish the system to use for the PDF file, when it is created, inside the spooled file itself. You can code a command, with an escape sequence, that the utility picks out of the spooled file and then uses for indexing the PDF's.