RE: Bold printing using *AFPDS and internal printing.

Hello Matt,

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message: 1
date: Thu, 7 May 2009 17:29:58 -0600
from: "Tyler, Matt" <matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Bold printing using *AFPDS and internal printing.

Dan,

" AFPDS is a *PAGE* format vs a *LINE* format in *SCS. An AFPDS page is
fully formated before anything is sent to the printer. Double print has
no effect as the pixels of the glyphs just overlay the previous ones. To
get bold in AFPDS, you'll have to code your program to use a AFPDS print
file and manage the font selection there."

Okay, well that stinks (for me anyway). With this tool there is no good
way to develop a *AFPSD external printer file so that I can bold. The
character position of the bold is variable even within the same document
because of the merge data.


Thanks, Matt