Re: Pretty printing from the iSeries

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pretty printing has been around for a long time, in the various AFP 
Utilities and other related products. But who has bought them? Perhaps 
something really good but before its time, maybe too much like GDDM? Why 
did none of us buy these products?

Vern

At 01:23 PM 5/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>  " It's probably been ten years since I've defined a report 'in RPG'. Or in
> COBOL or 'in' any other language other than DDS or QM.
>
> Tom Liotta"
>
> There's been a thread on another list about pretty printing from the iSeries
>   Host Print Transform has been mentioned as the right place for IBM to add
> pretty printing to the iSeries box.
>
> HPT seems like the best way to accomplish pre-formatted report layouts,
> defining page numbering, adding RTF, backgrounds, colors, footers and
> headers, page length, body length, images, and other features.
>
> It'd sure be nice if we could have a new source type for printing templates,
> and we could use a template with a new DDS keyord of "Stationery(Template12)
>  where Template12 was an HTML page with all the info excepting the data.
>
>
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> Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com