Re: Overlay Error

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Scott Klement wrote:

>
> > It is actually a jar file with a bunch of XML documents in it. So it
> > is a compressed file... well... if you compress text, it gets to be
> > quite small.
>
> You appear to be referring to the format of an Open Office .SXW document.
> However, I'm not sure that this is what James meant?
>
> I thought he meant that if he createn an AFP document using File/Print and
> choosing "Save To File" that the resulting document would be smaller than
> if he had done the same thing with Word?

That is exactly what I was trying to say, Scott.

> In any event, if Open Office does indeed generate more efficient AFP code,
> that means that the overlays should load into the printer faster, making
> it nicer to do the prints from the iSeries.
>
> Can anyone confirm that?

This is precisely our experience.  Overall, our results when using MS Word
were pretty abysmal.  Maybe we aren't Word experts.  All I know is when we
used OpenOffice things worked and ran fast (referring specifically to
overlay creation and overlay load times).

James Rich

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