Re: Overlay Error

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It isn't clear to me that he is using an AFB printer.  I am curious if he
has forgotten to do that step?
 
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Booth Martin
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 07/20/04 16:30:10
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Overlay Error
 
> 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?
 
In other words, the OVERLAY is smaller, not the original document that it
was created from.  Surely we can agree that an AFP document that's to be
made into an overlay isn't a ZIP/JAR file.  I think OO just generates more
efficient calls to the AFP drivers.
 
Likewise, if I take a Word document and open it in Open Office, then
immediately save it as a .DOC file without any changes, the document will
shrink from 68k to 40k.  I can still open that document in Word, it's
still a .DOC file...  but it's smaller.   In that case, I think the
difference might be that OO is discarding some/all of the "undo"
information.
 
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?