Re: Print overlay

in the email - each character is not the same width : like wwww and iii.
Bold is wider than not bold.
Courier New 10 will give you the standard 10 cpi fixed width.
The Printer Programming manual has more than you want to know about this.
For variable width text, i usually put all the text into a single field, or
if you need columns - then "position" like michael suggested.

both variable & fixed width, and use it to help select what I need.
jim franz

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Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Print overlay

Ummm, yeah...  are you using different fonts?  Or Try using the Position
Keyword.

R SECTION@2
 S@2LINE       90          POSITION(&S@2FRMTOP &S@2FRMLFT)
 S@2FRMLFT      5S 3P
 S@2FRMTOP      5S 3P


S@2frmlft and frmtop are fields that get populated in the RPGLE program.

Michael Schutte




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I have an AFPDS spool file containing a couple of barcodes.  I am creating
my print file with devtype(*AFPDS), page lebgth 22, overflow 22, page
rotation 0.

Problem is that when printing the output is not reflecting the character
positions.

Example..

R DETAIL
                           SKIPB(3)
                          1'Office Furniture Ltd'

                         34'WORKS ORDER NO:'
 WORD      R             50REFFLD(WORD)



Output omits spacing between literals - produces following :

Office Furniture LtdWorks Order No:

Any ideas ????

Thanks


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