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Re: Moving Overlay

Oh and the AFP driver has a setting to print text as graphics....which
will ensure the the text you see on the screen matches what comes out
of the printer.

But of course the price you'll pay is a larger overlay.

Note that if you're printer to actual AFP printers, there's a setting
in the AFP customization object to tell the system/printer to download
resources once and save them on the printer.

Not sure if that works for ASCII printers via HPT.

HTH,
Charles

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I just completed a number of tests using nothing but boxes at various
widths and that confirms what
you just said. I am going to go back and move everything back to left
margin very tightly and it
looks like that would do it with minor tweaking.....

My other concern is getting the printer font and the overlay font to
match as close as I can.
Since this is all done on pc's using true type, I'm sure the printer
stream is gonna look a
little different.

Yes...we are talking full page overlays...

Wow.....it's been very time consuming.

I sort of wish I has just done a simple deal with DDS with lines and boxes
but the guy wants a fancy Steel logo to print on all pages. Lot's of reverse
image words and heavy shaded boxes.


On 8/3/2011 5:06 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:
I'm assuming we're talking about full-page overlays.

My theory on overlays is that they never line up quite the same once they're uploaded to the iSeries!  Best bet is to create them to proper size, but have little or no top and left margins.  This lets you use the OVRPRTF command to move the overlay 'down' and 'across' to line up with the text.

When we created our overlays for the first time we had 'fun' trying to get things to line up.  We (me) in IT made an 'executive decision,' and defined the overlays to work at 12 CPI instead of 10.  Not a major change, and with laser printers the resolution is good enough that it's still legible.  This did mean that we had to squeeze the overlay horizontally (and apply any graphics -after- the squeeze to prevent distortion), and override the text to 12 CPI.  This gave us plenty of room to maneuver both the overlay and the text to line up.  It did leave an extra-wide right-hand margin (about an inch), which we filled with another copy of our logo and document title (turned sideways).

Paul E Musselman
paulmmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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