Re: Forms printing

to rotate - keyword is TXTRTT(90)

duplex - It is two pages so two writes, and if back of form is sometimes blank - you have to still write 2nd page with at least a space ...

Form forms overlay it's had to get a form to line up with cpi.
I do a dummy page (with overlay) with field every 0.10 down and across so I can quickly line up "position".

Jim

----- Original Message ----- From: "jmmckee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 4:58 PM
Subject: Forms printing

Two direct questions:

1) I compile the printer file with 12 CPI instead of the default 10. Most things fit nicely. One field is rotated 90 degrees. It is a bit tiny. What keyword would I use on that field to make it print larger?

2) For a duplex form, are two writes used to get the back to print?


Now, a seemingly off-the-wall question: Forms are printed now by a Lexmark printer, if it has a special forms chip installed. Is there any way to maybe get that file out of the printer without it printing and then rescanning it? I have been given multiple scanned versions of this stupid form. All >slightly< different. Bad enough that I have to use the POSITION keyword on every field, in CM units, without having to keep repositioning previous data. I have over a hundred fields to position. have only managed to get maybe 20 so far. Every scan does something to the height and width. Thus, my curiousity as to whether the Lexmark >might< store the merged file somewheer internally until printed. FTP right now shows only a single directory, and no read access - just write. Maybe the merged file gets dropped there. Or not. I just don't know a command to change the access to the directory to make it readable, if such exists.

Anyway, apologies for bringing up this topic again.

John McKee
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