[Info-vax] OpenVMS printing to PDF

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Stephen Hoffman skrev den 2015-05-20 15:54:
> On 2015-05-20 13:32:57 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>
>> What I would like to see is this:
>> 1. A PDF form is constructed with some kind of PDF editor, no need to do
>> this on VMS.
>> 2. Some kind of utility extracts the field names and field properties to
>> a Fields File. This can be a VMS utility, and it could check the validity
>> of the fields and produce the type of file we need. It could also be able
>> to produce files with field definitions that can be included in
>> application sources, for instance a file with fields that can be included
>> in the Cobol Working Storage.
>> 3. A callable utility (similar to PDFtk) opens the PDF form, the
>> application fills in the data fields, calls the utility to transfer the
>> contents of the data fields to the form, and then writes a page of the
>> pdf file.
>
> An HTML5 template is created, with Javascript or other embedded scripting
> code that queries the database or otherwise fetches the data from the data
> source or from the URL or from the POST data, and where the local HTML5
> rendering tool can then generate the completed form into a buffer, and
> where the rendering tool then generates the PDF from that HTML5.
>
>

Where is that Javascript or "other embedded scripting code" running?
Should the whole RT support for these scripting codes be linked in
into each application?

I do not understand the practical side of what you are saying.

Jan-Erik.