Re: special printing question

[Buck Calabro/commsoft<mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/17/99 07:58:13 AM mike poweleit  wrote:

>I am working on a program that prints invoices. The form is printed
>landscape on a laser printer and I need to print the mail to address
>on the back of the form rotated 90 degrees so the invoice may be
>folded for the  address to show though and envelope window. Is this
>possible with RPG LE and and an external printer file?

There are at least two ways.  If your address is the only thing on the back 
page, you can use PAGRTT and rotate the entire back page.  This'll work 
with any printer, including *SCS.  If you have PSF/400 and print using 
*AFPDS you can use the TXTRTT keyword to rotate only the fields you need 
to.  Check the DDS manual for details.

Jumping back to the "Where is the darned documentation for this machine" 
thread, I pulled up the DDS manual (CD-ROM) and did a search on the word 
"rotate".  Found both PAGRTT and TXTRTT straight away.  I approached the 
Wev books as if I had no idea where to start looking.  I did a search on 
"rotate" which returned 54 books (including the DDS manual.)  I figured 
that was too many to search for, so I tried "rotate field".  That returned 
7 books, with the DDS reference on top.

I have typically had problems searching for new or technical items, but 
older, broader topics seem easy enough to find.  The key to searching any 
database is to know the vocabulary used in the documents - IBM call it a 
field, SQL people call it a column.  A search on "rotate column"  had no 
hits.  "rotate data" had 6 hits, but no DDS reference.

Buck Calabro
CommSoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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