Enrico Zimuel

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8 Comments on “(English) Convert a spool file to PDF using PHP on i5/OS”

1. 
   1 Alberto Ernestini said on febbraio 12th, 2010:

   Your article sound very interesting. As a Iseries specialist from too many years i’ve tried to set it up on a test system, but i may need better PHP experience
   By example the i5spool asks also for a ‘JOBNR’ parameter and i wasn’t able to set the correct font. i still get a error.

   There is anything missing?
   Thanks a lot.
   Ciao.
   Alberto.

2. 
   2 Enrico Zimuel said on febbraio 13th, 2010:

   Hi Alberto,
   What’s the error message that you got? Which version of ZF are you using?
   In the i5Spool class you can use the function getList($user[,$num]) to get all the data of the user’s spool files (the $num is an optional parameter to get only the first $num spool file).

3. 
   3 Alberto Ernestini said on febbraio 15th, 2010:

   Hi , thanks for your prompt answer!
   This is the error :
   Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to Zend_Pdf_Page::setFont() must be an instance of Zend_Pdf_Resource_Font, string given, called in /usr/local/Zend/5250/demos/emulation/i5Spool.php on line 111 and defined in /usr/local/Zend/ZendFramework/library/Zend/Pdf/Page.php on line 586

   and this is what i am having on my Iseries 515 :
   1ZCORE5 *BASE 5001 Zend Core for IBM i5/OS (2.6.1)
   1ZCORE5 1 5002 Zend Platform for IBM i5/OS (3.6.1 )

   The Zend FW version is 1.6.0.

   Thanks!
   Ciao.
   Alberto.

4. 
   4 Enrico Zimuel said on febbraio 16th, 2010:

   Hi Alberto, did you tried to install the last ZF version? I guess this problem comes out using an old version of ZF. I tried the example in the post using ZF 1.9.6 on i5/OS and i didn’t found your error.

5. 
   5 Alberto Ernestini said on febbraio 16th, 2010:

   Almost solved!!
   There was some problems on the Iseries side.
   A Codepage font problem reported as ‘ Wrong Charset conversion from utf-8 to CP1252//IGNORE is not allowed’.

   For this i had to modify the Font/Simple.php in this way :

   /Zend/Pdf/Resource/Font/Simple.php

   line 259, replace :

   return iconv($charEncoding, ‘CP1252//IGNORE’, $string);

   with

   return $string;

   and line 273, replace :

   return iconv(‘CP1252′, $charEncoding, $string);

   with

   return $string;

   (taken from a Zend Forum post of Mon, 04 August 2008)

   and also the other error was because of line 111 on i5spool.php under toPdf function

   $page->setFont($conf_pdf['font'],$conf_pdf['font-size']);

   changing it with this :
   $page->setFont(Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName($conf_pdf['font']),(int)$conf_pdf['font-size']);
   solved the font problem.

   there is also a extra addition on the i5spool.php, at the new page i had to add this line after line 123
   $page->setFont(Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName($conf_pdf['font']),(int)$conf_pdf['font-size']);
   this for set the font also on the new page.
   Now the code works well , except for the breakpage but i think i can fix it
   Thanks a lot!
   Ciao
   Alberto

6. 
   6 Enrico Zimuel said on febbraio 16th, 2010:

   Hi Alberto, i found that this was a bug of your ZF version. In the new version of ZF this issue has been solved with the management of AIX (i5/OS) environments.
   In /Zend/Pdf/Resource/Font/Simple.php in the new ZF version there is this patch:

   public function encodeString($string, $charEncoding)
   {
   if (PHP_OS == ‘AIX’) {
   return $string; // returning here b/c AIX doesnt know what CP1252 is
   }
   return iconv($charEncoding, ‘CP1252//IGNORE’, $string);
   }

   I suggest you to upgrade your version of ZF with the last one.
   Regarding the issue of the new PDF page in the i5Spool class I just fixed the problem. I updated the class in the post, thanks!

7. 
   7 David Porter said on settembre 1st, 2010:

   Zimuel,

   Thanks for the Spool Class and information on using the i5 Toolkit for strong i5/OS interactions.

   I have a question: why does the i5_spool_get_data function only return a string, and being a string, why does it not return any of the formatting data associated with a print file such as boxes, simple lines or image overlays?

   I would love to use the toolkit to convert spool data to PDF but I need all of the spool data, not just a long string of unformatted text.

   Does that make sense?

8. 
   8 Enrico Zimuel said on settembre 3rd, 2010:

   Hi David,
   unfortunately the i5_spool can manage only strings, no images. If you need to convert complex spool file to PDF I suggest to use the CVT2PDF (http://www.code400.com/cvt2pdf.php) and call it with the i5 Toolkit from PHP.

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