Re: Overlay, HPT question

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You "might" be trying too hard... why are you using the API
in lieu of letting the system do the HPT ??? I'm not familar
with the sample program, is it using the API ???

Brad Stone wrote:
>
> Alright, so I decided to goof around with AFP spooled files
> and overlays and PCL and stuff.  :)
>
> Anyhow, I'm using IBM's sampler from their AFP info web
> page.  Program INVNEW1 creates an invoice.  When I create
> PCL out of this (using host print transform API), and
> transfer it to my PC things look good except for one thing.
>
> In the overlay, it looks like some certain characters aren't
> getting converted correctly.  For example a space becomes a
> @, a period becomes a weird "K", and a few others like
> colons and dashes are also converted weird.  But this is
> only in the text that is part of the overlay.
>
> I have used a few different WSCST objects for the conversion
> and still everything comes out like that.
>
> As an example, the text:
>
> Ship Via:
>
> Comes out as:
>
> Ship@Viaz
>
> I've pretty much traced this to the transform and not ftp
> process.  I'm using the host print transform API to do this.
> Any ideas?  Even where to start looking?