RE: Bold printing using *AFPDS and internal printing.

Double printing, as Booth describes, is probably how the bolding is done
in *SCS print. In *AFPDS, the graphics will just overlay.

Matt may be forcing a font substitution into a font group that doesn't
have bold glyphs. I'd need to know a lot more details about how the
print file is set up.

One can use an overlay on *SCS output. You can't do font substitution,
though, other than CPI, rotation, and COR.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Bold printing using *AFPDS and internal printing.

Can you print the bolded fields twice? Two output lines? That works in
some situations.

Tyler, Matt wrote:

I have a tool called Document Integrator. It allows us to create
boiler plates and merge data to create letters and such.



When I print with this tool it outputs via program described output
(because of the variable nature of the user documents). The tool

has

a feature that allow for underling and bolding of text. If I print

to

a *SCS data stream the bolding appears but if I use a print file or
override one to use *AFPDS data stream the bolding is lost. However,
the underlining remains.



I know that I can bold in an externally defined *AFPDS printer file
but I cannot use one in this case. The bolded data could appear in
various positions on the print line because of the size of merge data.

I Must use *AFPDS to specify the document font and a letter head

overlay.

Does any one have experience in forcing the bolding to program
described output while using a *AFPDS defined printer file?



Thanks, Matt




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