RE: AFP Overlay Troubles - box overshadowing text

[michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

James -

I'm doing a bunch of overlay stuff right now...what did you see for file
sizes between a postscript file and the equivalent overlay and merged
text? Did you create the postscript file with the dynamic text in it or
use the postscript file as an overlay? HAd to have the right printers,
right?



> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: AFP Overlay Troubles - box overshadowing text
> From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, March 30, 2005 3:04 pm
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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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