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Jim,

I've never seen overlays used for individual elements...didn't know
you could even specify OVERLAY more than once.

In my mind, an overlay is the lines, boxes, text, and logos that would
have been pre-printed on a dot-matrix form.

Interesting...both page segments and overlays have a max use per page
of 10....but page segments are resizeable.

OVERLAY([(library-name | &library-name-field)/overlay-name] |
&overlay-name-field] position-down | &position-down-field
position-across | &position-across-field [(*ROTATION rotation-field) |
&rotation-field-name)])

PAGSEG(library-name | &library-name-field/ page-segment-name |
&page-segment-name-field position-down | &position-down-field
position-across | &position-across-field [(*SIZE width | &width-field
height | height-field)] [(*ROTATION rotation | &rotation)]


Charles

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:24 AM, <JDHorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charles

not sure what you mean that overlays are allways full page.  We don't do overlays with ovrprtf, we specify the overlay in the printer file and write it via the rpg program.  we often have several overlays on 1 page - even in 1 record format.

sample printer file dds

A          R OVL1ZZ
A
A* PRINT BODY LOGO
A                                      OVERLAY(&OVNAME0 +
A                                              &OVDOWN0 &OVACROSS0)
A* PRINT UPPER LEFT OVERLAY - COMPANY LOGO
A                                      OVERLAY(&OVNAME1 +
A                                              &OVDOWN1 &OVACROSS1)
A* PRINT UPPER RIGHTOVERLAY - 2ND LOGO
A                                      OVERLAY(&OVNAME2 +
A                                              &OVDOWN2 &OVACROSS2)
A            OVNAME0        8A  P
A            OVDOWN0        5S 3P
A            OVACROSS0      5S 3P
A            OVNAME1        8A  P
A            OVDOWN1        5S 3P
A            OVACROSS1      5S 3P
A            OVNAME2        8A  P
A            OVDOWN2        5S 3P
A            OVACROSS2      5S 3P

Jim Horn


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message: 1
date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:36:11 -0400
from: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Forms printing

Overlays are _ALWAYS_ full page...

If you want just pieces of pages, you need to create page segments
instead of overlays.

HTH,

Charles
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