PDF417
Installation
Guide
NeoMedia Technologies, Inc.
Page 6
ACUCOBOL
To compile and link the sample program for ACUCOBOL:
NOTE: Compiling and testing the COBOL sample is not a required step for installation of the
PDF417 Encoder. It is recommended if you will be using the COBOL API.
1. Create a runtime which includes ACUCOBOL and PDF417 encoder library
(
wpruncbl.exe
):
•
Change directory to the acu directory in the PDF417 distribution,
...\pdf417_32bit\acu
•
Make sure that the variables are defined correctly in
wpruncbl.mak
•
Execute the make file:
...\pdf417_32bit\acu> nmake /f wpruncbl.mak
2. Create a sample directory to build the sample programs in.
Note: for the 16-bit
installation, you can build the sample programs in the installation directory.
3. Change directory to the test directory just created (
...\test
) and copy the following files
to this directory:
...\test> copy ...\pdf417_32bit\sample\samplcob.cob .
...\test> copy ...\pdf417_32bit\sample\nmpdf417.cob .
...\test> copy ...\pdf417_32bit\acu\compacu.bat .
4. Compile the test program:
...\test> compacu samplcob
This command will create a debuggable object file
samplcob
.
5. Copy the dynamic link library (.dll) to the same directory as the runtime executable or into
one of the appropriate places that the system will find it at runtime:
...\test> copy ..\pdf417_32bit\lib\pdfenc_d.dll
..\pdf417_32bit\acu\pdfenc_d.dll
NOTE:
The
DLL
can be copied to the
C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
or the
path where the ACUCOBOL runtime executable will reside.
6. Run the new runtime with the COBOL object as a parameter:
...\test> ...\acu\wpruncbl
samplcob
7. For successful execution, there will be no screen I/O but the following file will be created in
the current directory:
...\test\pdffont
The file that is created from this test program is a font character file which contains an array of
font characters that, when printed with the appropriate PDF417 symbol font, will render the
PDF417 symbol for the following data:
This is a test of the NeoMedia Technologies PDF417 Encoder.
The error
correction will encode at level 3 with ECC padding.
