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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm troubleshooting a problem with the way some AFP form overlays are
printing on our iSeries attached IPDS 1145 printers. After bringing the
My experience with overlays has been that they are more trouble than they
are worth. We ended up abandoning overlays, AFP, and IPDS altogether and
using postscript. With help from this list it ended up being not too
hard. And the results are wonderful. And we got a great side benefit of
being able to convert the resulting postscript to pdf automatically. This
is something that people found really useful since now they could email
the reports in all their glory.
But if you stick with overlays and AFP, I found that using Microsfot Word
to create the overlay always results in problems. We discovered that
using openoffice instead always created the overlay correctly. I don't
know why. I guess Word just plain sucks. You can get openoffice at:
http://www.openoffice.org
James Rich
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- billyskank on Groklaw
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