Re: Editing Spool files (was RE: Overlay questions)

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a product called AFP PrintSuite that might do some of this. You can
see more at <http://www.printers.ibm.com/R5PSC.NSF/Web/AFPPrintsuiteHome>.
Claims to allow you to have AFP output without changes to your applicaitons.

There ARE APIs that can retrieve the contents of a spooled file and write
out to one. I've never done it. Bold is usually done with a second & third
spooled file record with 0 advance, containing only the highlighted text.
But that was originally for dot-band printers, etc.

At 04:27 PM 4/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>If overlays aren't possible, can I manually edit the spool file somehow? Is
>there a way to edit the hex values for the attributes?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Denis Robitaille
>
>The overlay can not do that. But if the lines are always the same, you could
>overwrite them with the overlay.
>
> >>> MNWills@taylorcorp.com 04/16/02 11:49am >>>
>What is the extent of what an overlay can do? We have this spoolfile which
>is created through Lawson. We can't edit the source to do this, but we need
>to bold a couple lines on the report. Can overlays do this? If they can't
>bold how would I go about bolding those lines? Can I edit the hex edit codes
>and bold the line manually?
>
>I am just looking for ideas.
>
>Mike Wills
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