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Change of direction a little on the topic. But does anyone know of a way to print a PDF document without user interaction? I have an existing RPG app that writes a spool file with an overlay and creates an AFP print file. I then have a tool that will convert that spool file to PDF and currently send the PDF to the user who has to open it and print it (sometimes). The user wants to sometimes email, sometimes fax and sometimes print and mail the form. How they get the PDF in an email and forward to the vendor, or email to our fax server as an email or open it and print it. I would like to try and ask them when they request the print what they want to do with it and directly email to the vendor or the fax server or direct the PDF to a printer in the user office. I know one option would be to get an AFP capable printer for this office but the use might expand to possibly dozens of other offices. We have a big Xerox printer connected to a Sun server and on that we can FTP to the server and it will automatically print the document. I might also be able to setup a Windows PC to accept incoming commands from the iSeries and FTP to the PC then send a command to print the PDF to the printer but I really would prefer to do this without that complexity added and just go direct form the iSeries to the printer.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 9:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Forms printing

Overlays are _ALWAYS_ full page...

If you want just pieces of pages, you need to create page segments instead of overlays.

HTH,

Charles


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:06 AM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Overlays can be full page bitmaps as described above, or they can be
smaller pieces (ie your logo/letterhead) that you position on the page
wherever you need it.  This doesn't need to be a full page bitmap.
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