Copy Spooled Files to PDFs

Some time ago, I wrote the blog, “Export Spooled Files to PDF Files,” that described the support available in the 6.1 and 7.1 releases to generate PDF files, either natively or by converting spooled files to PDFs. Near the end of that blog article I wrote, “I wonder if IBM will provide an easier interface to do this someday? It seems like it would be really nice to simply copy a spooled file to a PDF … ”

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Export Spooled Files to PDF Files in 7.1

As I was learning about the details of our PDF support in the 7.1 release to write this blog, I discovered things were a bit more confusing than I realized. So this blog post is going to discuss the PDF support we’ve had in the past along with what’s new with 7.1. The information in this blog also pertains to the releases after 7.1.

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