Re: color overlay object size

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

You probably need to use the SPENDMONEY command....

My belief is that as it stands now, your overlay is entirely
graphical.  What you need is an overlay that instead of having a
picture of a line, a box, or characters, as the commands that say draw
a line, a box, or put the text here.

In order to get such an overlay, you'll need a product that was
designed to create overlays.  IBM's Infoprint Designer is one such
product. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/print/ipdesignerhome_i_ww.html

I assume there are similar 3rd party products, there used to be at least.

You should be able to get a trial of IBM's product or others to see how they do.

HTH,
Charles




On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am having trouble getting a color overlay size so that when the spooled file converted to pdf & emailed the attach size is not too big.
> It's an invoice form, and cust requires it be same as original invoice in Red and Blue characters. Currently pdf approx 1.2 meg and some customers get hundreds of these each month.
> Orig scan is 5 meg jpeg, we used photoshop and got it down to 592kb, but the resulting overlay is never less than 1 meg.
> Using IBM Infoprint Color 130 AFP driver
> gray scale method = Photographic dither
> Color option = full color - 32 bit
> Graphic options = basic
> Compression = jpeg
> I've tried changing various parms but cannot find a solution.
> Any ideas?
>
> Jim Franz
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