Re: Forms printing

Thanks. I did figure out the TXTRTE. But, due to weird box sizes, I had to change the CPI to 12 - which makes the single rotated field smaller than is optimal. I was thinking that was a keyword I could use to change the CPI for the sigle rotated field. Maybe there is. Finally had a chance to look - CPI. That might work. Easier than messing with fonts, from what I see of the keywords.

Thanks for the clarification on back side printing. Depending on application, back overlay would not be used. I was hoping that all I had to do was add a record format for the back and print it. I have a LOT more fields to position before I get there. This form was reviewed by some group years ago. Not very closely, from what I can tell. One date is printed as CCYY/MM/DD another is printed as six digits, and a third is printed as MM/DD/YY. Other weirdness exists. Just real tiresome dealing with it.

John McKee

-----Original message-----
From: "Jim Franz" franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:27:42 -0500
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Forms printing

to rotate - keyword is TXTRTT(90)

duplex - It is two pages so two writes, and if back of form is sometimes
blank - you have to still write 2nd page with at least a space ...

Form forms overlay it's had to get a form to line up with cpi.
I do a dummy page (with overlay) with field every 0.10 down and across so I
can quickly line up "position".

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmmckee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:58 PM
Subject: Forms printing

Two direct questions:

1) I compile the printer file with 12 CPI instead of the default 10.
Most things fit nicely. One field is rotated 90 degrees. It is a bit
tiny. What keyword would I use on that field to make it print larger?

2) For a duplex form, are two writes used to get the back to print?


Now, a seemingly off-the-wall question: Forms are printed now by a
Lexmark printer, if it has a special forms chip installed. Is there any
way to maybe get that file out of the printer without it printing and then
rescanning it? I have been given multiple scanned versions of this stupid
form. All >slightly< different. Bad enough that I have to use the
POSITION keyword on every field, in CM units, without having to keep
repositioning previous data. I have over a hundred fields to position.
have only managed to get maybe 20 so far. Every scan does something to
the height and width. Thus, my curiousity as to whether the Lexmark
>might< store the merged file somewheer internally until printed. FTP
right now shows only a single directory, and no read access - just write.
Maybe the merged file gets dropped there. Or not. I just don't know a
command to change the access to the directory to make it readable, if such
exists.

Anyway, apologies for bringing up this topic again.

John McKee
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