CoolSpools
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CoolSpools converts iSeries spooled file to a variety of industry-standard formats including PDF, Excel, RTF (Word), text, CSV and TIFF.

If you're already familiar with CoolSpools, but would like to know what's new in Version 5, details can be found here

Unlike many iSeries spooled file conversion tools, CoolSpools does not just handle *SCS spooled files, but can also convert:

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*AFPDS

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*AFPDSLINE

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*IPDS

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*LINE

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*USERASCII  (HP PCL)

 

Version 5 of CoolSpools includes the ability to merge PDF files. This means that you can combine spooled files into a single PDF. You can also take existing PDFs created from there applications and combine them using CoolSpools' MRGPDF (Merge PDF) command or Merge API. The ability to merge PDFs is, so far as we are aware, a unique feature among iSeries PDF generators.

Combining ease of use with a rich set of options and features, CoolSpools has many possible business applications, most of which can be implemented quickly and simply without re-programming existing systems.

Here are just a few possibilities:

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Automated report distribution

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Internet and Intranet publishing

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Enhancing reports

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Archiving and relieving iSeries resources

Formats

You can choose several different formats for your files, depending on your particular requirements.

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PDF 

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Excel

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HTML

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RTF

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Delimited ASCII (e.g. CSV) 

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ASCII text

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TIFF

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Spooled file archive format

Click here for some examples.

Features

CoolSpools provides a number of invaluable features available from few if any other similar products on the market. These features help make it possible to integrate CoolSpools with your existing applications without major re-programming.

These features include:

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Support for AFP and IPDS as well as SCS

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Splitting a single spooled file into several stream files

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User-written exit programs

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Merging several PDFs into one

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Colorizing reports

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User-definable font mappings

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PDF bookmark generation

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PDF data compression

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Web-optimized PDF

System Requirements

CoolSpools Version 5 needs at least OS/400 V5R1M0 to run. You will also need at least 50 Mb of disk space.

If you are running an earlier version of OS/400, you can install one of the previous versions of CoolSpools, as shown in the table below below:

CoolSpools Version Minimum OS/400 Version Download
V5 V5R1M0
V4 V4R5M0
V2 V4R3M0