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Does MSWord allow for the movement of the data to different locations on the page than the original output? Gregory A. Garner Garner Data Systems, Inc. 4270 Grand Teton Parkway Suwanee, GA 30024 Phone: 770 845 9636 Fax:770 614 3496 -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:41 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer You can create the forms using MS Word and turn those into AFP overlays. You can then use overlays and page segments to generate the form. I like this method more than using forms packages, and I've used a few. Check the archives for more information. On 2/13/07, John Taylor <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello, Our organization is modifying a number of our forms to include bar codes and other graphics, which requires us to generate AFP spool files instead of SCS. Unfortunately, Code Designer has not been updated in years, and never was able to do AFP documents. I know there is a program called Infoprint Designer that provides a WSYWIG way of defining AFP documents, but the product is prohibitively priced at $5000 U.S. per workstation, plus additional fees for the server component. At that price, Infoprint Designer is just another nail in the coffin of the iSeries around here. I realize that we can hand craft the DDS, but that's very time consuming and error prone. It's just not something that I'm willing to waste my time doing for the sole purpose of keeping the printing on the iSeries. Our choices boil down to either finding a reasonably priced iSeries alternative to Designer, or moving our printing onto the PC platform. I'm writing the list to see if anyone knows of an alternative to Designer. If you have something that you're currently using and happy with, I'd love to hear about it. Vendors are welcome to reply directly to my email address. Just a thought... but shouldn't Designer have been rolled into WDSC anyway? Business applications tend to require forms printing. Why don't we have a modern forms designer included in our development toolset? Regards, John Taylor -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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