Re: Need 2003 W-2 laser form bitmap for overlay

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, G Armour wrote:

> Is there a publicly-available, IRS official 2003 W-2 laser form bitmap or
> other graphic format that can be imported into Microsoft Word?  I did the
> obvious and checked out the irs.gov website, but as far as I can tell,
> they offer only info-only W2 forms.  And only PDF files.
>
> I am brand new to overlays, and I am being instructed that we create
> overlays from Word documents, therefore, the W-2 laser form must be in a
> format that can be imported into Word.  From the Word document a series of
> steps follow that turn it into an *OVL object on the 400.  Can a PDF be
> turned into an AS/400 overlay object?

As already mentioned, just print the pdf from acrobat reader using the AFP
print drivers.

I thought that I should point out that the last time we used Word to
create overlays the results were very poor.  Often it didn't work at all.
Our solution was to use OpenOffice instead of Word.  All the same steps
apply, you just use a different word processor.  The results were good and
worked every time.

Summary:  if you are making overlays, don't use Word, use openoffice.

James Rich

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