RE: Creation of printer object for landscape printing

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave Odom
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:25 PM
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> Subject: RE: Creation of printer object for landscape printing
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> But couldn't I just do what Dan suggested by creating two or 
> more print
> files with the CRTPRTF command, tie that into the appropriate output
> queue and writer and volia?  Or am I missing something?
> 

You're missing something.....you still have to tell the applications, in this 
case QM, to use the printer file.  By default, QM uses a printer file named 
QPQXPRTF.  To have the application use the settings from a different printer 
file when it creates output you have to use the OVRPRTF command.

The appropriate printer file settings must be "active" before you start QM, or 
at least before QM opens the file for output.

So you either use OVRPRTF to change the settings of QPQXPRTF or you use OVRPRTF 
to point QM to a different printer file before starting QM.  If you wrapped the 
IBM commands, your commands could take the appropriate page size parameters and 
perform the OVRPRTF before calling the IBM commands.

Make sense?

Now, one other idea. If you were to change QPQXPRTF to use a 13.2" x 11" page 
size.  You could set up two output printer devices, one normal and one that 
ignored COR & RTT.  Normal behavior, when printing a 13.2 x 11 to an HP 
letter-size is to rotate and reduce the font size so that the printing fits on 
the page in landscape.  By ignoring COR & RTT, it would truncate everything 
after 80 chars.  So you'd see 8.5" x 11" in portrait on the paper.  This idea 
is rather limited in comparision to what you'd like and what you can do with 
OVRPRTF; but it might be useful.




Charles