Re: Export Overlay

Thanks Bill,

Great answer!

I do have a tool to convert AFP to PDF or tiff. What I do not have is a
tool to print the overlay and I also do not have the menu AFPU or the
CVTOVLPFM command. I guess I can write a spool file with no (space) data
and the overlay then convert it to tiff or PDF.

Spencer

Scott, Bill wrote:

If you truly want to export it to use on a different system, you may run

CVTOVLPFM to a temp file and then CPYTOPCD to go to a folder and document or
CPYTOSTMF to go to a stream file. The resulting file is still AFP and needs
something on the other end that can understand that format. There are some
free viewers and converters, but they still need any fonts and page segments
to be complete. If you need to migrate a lot of AFP resources, such as page
defs, form defs, fonts, overlays, and page segs, to another system that can
use AFP, I'll give you some code that converts all of the AFP objects in a
library.

I'm guessing that you don't want AFP on the other end but rather some

sort of image format. If that is the case try printing the overlay, then the
iSeries will resolve the fonts, pegs segs etc. and do scaling to your
printer's resolution. If you have any of the tools to convert spool files to
PDF, just run that and convert the PDF to image.

If you have the old AFP utilities installed, GO AFPU has an option 22

that lets you sample print overlays.

Bill Scott
Océ North America, Inc.
Tel.: (561) 997-3256
e-mail: Bill.Scott@xxxxxxx

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Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:41
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Subject: Export Overlay

Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to export a OVL object from the iSeries back to

a graphics file format in the IFS?

Thank,
Spencer
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