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Future3 is the EDI/shipping document package that we use but it does invoices, both printed and electronic. Their overlay solution is to do overlays with forms designed with Adobe designer. If I recall correctly, under the covers it generates a normal spool file, copies it to a database file, and then generates another spool file with the overlay. It's kind of a roundabout way of doing it but it works. It does have the advantage that you can if you have the Designer product you can specify fields in the overlay form that you can reference from their configurable interface code. That might be handy if you do a lot of EDI-related forms printing. If not, it's probably just a lot of extra work. Personally, if you've got a simple RPG invoice program, either in-house or a package, I would recommend creating an overlay and specifying it in an AFPDS printer file. It's pretty easy to design an overlay in Microsoft Word (or your favorite PC application), print it to a file using IBM's free AFP printer driver, upload it to the system, and create the overlay from that. The hard part is getting everyone to agree that it's OK to print multiple copies instead of using mult-part forms. Dave Parnin -- Nishikawa Standard Company 324 Morrow Street Topeka, IN 46571 260-593-2156 ext. 621 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Darrell A Martin <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxx To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> om> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: replace multi-part invoice form midrange-l-bounces@m idrange.com 11/15/2006 08:32 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Dave: We are moving in exactly the direction you did. It wasn't a case of scrapping our two 4234s; one has died outright and the other has ... coughing fits ... at times. However, we need another "layer" of printer control like Bullwinkle needs a hat rack. How easy -- really! -- is it to set up, use, and maintain the Future3 program? Is spooled/queued output managed only on the iS/400 or are there also other print queues to deal with? In anticipation of your answer, I will wander off to the 'Net. Darrell Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2187 Manager, Computer Operations dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/14/2006 02:47:11 PM:
We scrapped a txinax dot-matrix printer earlier this year that was used
for
invoices. (No more twinax--YEA!!!) Our invoices print out of Future3
from
Infor which generates a spool file and merges it with an Adobe overlay.
In
a former life I did bills-of-lading that had been multi-part but were switched to multiple copies of overlays on plain paper. The truck
drivers
just signed each one. In both cases it was nice because you didn't have the expense of multi-part forms or the worry of running out. Dave Parnin
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