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PDF Configuration File

The PDF configuration file (JCKPDFC DD statement) consists of the following five single-line parameters:

PRMODE=PDFL|PDFLB|PDF|PDFB|HTML|RTF
PRMODE

Specifies the output data stream format.

PDFL

Indicates a linear PDF file; this is the default.

PDFLB

Indicates a linear PDF file with a blue bar overlay.

PDF

Indicates an Adobe Portable Document Format file.

PDFB

Indicates an Adobe Portable Document Format file with a blue bar overlay.

HTML

Indicates a Hypertext Markup Language file.

RTF

Indicates a Rich Text Format file.

ORIENT=AUTO|PORT|LAND
ORIENT

Specifies the output orientation.

AUTO

Indicates the PDF converter will analyze the input file to select the best orientation and best maximum number of lines to print per page; this is the default.

PORT

Indicates portrait orientation.

LAND

Indicates landscape orientation.

CODEPAGE=input-codepage
CODEPAGE

Specifies the EBCDIC codepage of the input file. The default is:
CODEPAGE=IBM-1047

All EBCDIC codepages are translated into the ASCII codepage ISO8859-1, except for the following:

IBM-875

Translated into ISO8859-7 Greek

IBM-424/IBM-803/IBM-1028

Translated into ISO8859-8 Hebrew

IBM-1026

Translated into ISO8859-9 Turkish

CHARS=XX99
CHARS

Specifies the font type (xx) and the characters per inch (99).

Characters per inch (CPI) are horizontal in range and span 1 through 29. The following font types are supported:

CB

Courier-Bold

CE

Courier

CI

Courier-Italic

CR

Courier

GB

Courier-Bold

GL

Courier

GT

Courier

OB

Helvetica-Bold

OR

Helvetica

PR

Courier

RT

Courier-Bold

SI

Courier-Italic

ST

Courier

Note: The default CHARS depends on the ORIENT parameter.

LC=max lines per page
LC

Specifies the maximum number of lines to print per page in the range from 0 through 255.

Note: The default LC depends on the ORIENT parameter. If ORIENT=AUTO is specified, the LC parameter is ignored.