RE: How do I create an overlay?

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <art@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you printed the overlay to the file, did you specify medium overlay for 
output type in the printer options?  The default on
mine is Document.

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Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
> [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of tomh@simas.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: How do I create an overlay?
>
>
> I have a Word2000 form that I'm trying to use as an overlay on our 400
> (unsuccessfully). Searching thru the archives I came across the following:
>
> CRTPF FILE(library/file) RCDLEN(8201) LVLCHK(*NO)
> CPYFRMPCD FROMFLR(folder) TOFILE(library/file) FROMDOC(pcfilename)
> TRNTBL(*NONE) TRNFMT(*NOTEXT)
> CRTOVL OVL(lib/overlay) FILE(library/file) MBR(member)
>
> When I do the CRTOVL command, I get the following error on the 400:
>
> File DOC8130 in WEBTSTSRX not valid for creating a *OVL
>
> Expanded help gives the following:
>    2 - The structured field identifier in the incoming data for the printer
>  resource is not correct or is not supported. The error was detected while
>  processing record 1, byte number 0. The structured field which is not
>  correct may be caused by a length that is not correct on the previous
>  structure field. The structured field which was being processed at the
> time is 'D0CF11E0A1B1'X.
>
> What am I doing wrong or leaving out?  How _should_ I be creating an
> overlay?
>
> Tom Hightower
> Solutions, Inc
> http://www.simas.com
>
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