RE: problem printing report with overlay to legal landscape -- MIDRANGE-L

You'll get different results, okay. I'm suggesting you might not have
adequate control to fit your text to the overlay with this method. LPI
CPI "suggest" a font to the printer (or HPT). Taking direct control of
font selection yourself allows finer control.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:31 PM
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Subject: RE: problem printing report with overlay to legal landscape

Thanks for your e-mail Dan
however, I must disagree.
I have left the font size alone, but changed the LPI and CPI and get
different results

Alan Shore
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/25/2009 03:48:50 PM:

Alan,

You may have problems fiddling with LPI and CPI. When you get a file
set up this way, most times LPI and CPI are used as suggestions for
picking a font and font size, not actual characters per inch and lines

per inch as one would think. Look at your available fonts and pick a
fixed pitch font in the right face (serif, sans-serif) and then start
messing with the font size. If you have outline fonts available,
they'll scale to whatever point size you pick.

Dan Kimmel

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: problem printing report with overlay to legal landscape

BRYCE
if you were in front of me, I would kiss you FULL on the mouth.
Your suggestion did NOT work, but I changed my google search to
FONT(*CPI)
+ AS400 and came up with results that were different than I had
+ previously
obtained
The change I made was

PGM PARM(&PBNUMX)
DCL VAR(&PBNUMX) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7)
DCL VAR(&PBNUM) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(7 0)
CHGVAR VAR(&PBNUM) VALUE(&PBNUMX)
OVRPRTF FILE(PICKLGL) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) PAGESIZE(8.5 +
14 *UOM) LPI(12) CPI(20) DRAWER(1) +
FONT(222) FRONTOVL(AXSLIB/PICKLGL4) +
OUTQ(WPPGMR6) COPIES(1) SAVE(*YES) +
SECURE(*YES)
CALL PGM(AXSLIB/ORD220LGL) PARM(&PBNUM)
ENDPGM

Changing the PAGESIZE to define it in units of measure instead of rows

and columns seemed to do the trick I now have ALL of the data being
printed the FULL width of the page Now I have to play with the LPI and

CPI to make it fit

Alan Shore
Programmer/Analyst, Distribution
E:AShore@xxxxxxxxxxx
P:(631) 200-5019
C:(631) 880-8640
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/25/2009 11:27:44 AM:

Sorry, should have looked at the command before I replied...

Try replacing FONT(*CPI) with an actual value instead. I'm not an
expert

on this since I only create a printer file a couple times a year,
but I think I had played with this value and the page size to get it

working properly. My printer file was a (81 127) with FONT(222).
I

also had

LPI(7.5) and CPI(18). I don't exactly know all the ins and outs

how

these values correlate to each other and this was months ago, so
take it with a grain of salt...

Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
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