Re: AFPDS printer driver woes

MS Word has not been a good consistent tool for many of us
building overlays. Others have posted on this over the years.
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Duzenbury" <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ISeries Mailing List" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: AFPDS printer driver woes


> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone having problems with overlays created via the IBM AFP printer
> driver?
>
> I've discovered that using word I cannot get 'wordart' lines, ovals,
> clipart and such to print in an AS/400 overlay when printing directly
> from word to the AFP driver.  They simply do not appear.
>
> If I print the document from within word on my workstation to the
> printer, all of the 'artwork' appears just fine.
>
> If I print the document to a generic-postscript printer driver on file:,
> and then open and print from 'gsview' to the AFP driver, and create the
> overlay from that, the artwork appears just fine.
>
> I've also had similar problems printing directly from PageMaker.
>
> I believe I have the latest version of the driver downloaded from the
> IBM web site.
>
> I've tested both the Win98 and WinXP versions of the driver, both appear
> to have the same issue.
>
> The target output device is an HP4050TN.  On the AS/400, I'm using a
> remote output queue with host print transform to an *HP4 as there
> doesn't seem to be an *HP4050 in the list.
>
> Suggestions welcome.  Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rich
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